Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 file system read only issue
On 22/08/19 2:20 AM, Warren Young wrote:
On Aug 21, 2019, at 7:35 AM, Xinhuan Zheng wrote:
my $s = IO::Select->new( $fh );
if ( $io->can_write( 10 ) {
That’s not designed to do what you hope. select(2) is a system call intended
for use on network socket handles, not file handles. Since socket handles and
file handles are compatible on a Unix type system (including CentOS) the call
doesn’t fail, but it *cannot* report the information you’re hoping to get.
I would first try calling the -w operator:
print_to_file() if -w $fh;
First off I would be remiss if I didn't point out that CentOS 5 has been
EOL for years, that said...
You're dealing with perl here and so this might be better off asking in
a perl list. The -X system of tests as documented with "perldoc -f -X"
do not by default test actual ability to read and write files, but
instead just check the file mode bits as returned by stat(), thus the -w
test will not reflect the filesystem being in read-only mode.
There are two ways to get around this. One is to to use the filetest
pragma which changes the behavior of the -X tests to use the access(2)
system function:
{ use filetest 'access';
print_to_file() if -w $fh;
}
The other way is to use POSIX::access() directly (this requires the file
name or path):
use POSIX qw(access W_OK);
...
print_to_file() if access($filepath, W_OK);
Note that there are caveats to either of the above approaches as per
documentation. See the following for additional info:
perldoc -f -X
perldoc filetest
access(2)
Peter
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Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 file system read only issue
On Aug 21, 2019, at 7:35 AM, Xinhuan Zheng wrote:
>
> my $s = IO::Select->new( $fh );
> if ( $io->can_write( 10 ) {
That’s not designed to do what you hope. select(2) is a system call intended
for use on network socket handles, not file handles. Since socket handles and
file handles are compatible on a Unix type system (including CentOS) the call
doesn’t fail, but it *cannot* report the information you’re hoping to get.
I would first try calling the -w operator:
print_to_file() if -w $fh;
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Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 file system read only issue
On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 3:35 PM Xinhuan Zheng
wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> We are using CentOS 5 system for certain application. Those are VM guests
> running in VMware. There is datastore issue occasionally, causing all file
> systems becoming read only file systems.
> - Xinhuan Zheng
>
Orthogonal consideration:
I don't know the version of vSphere you are using and if you are using or
not VMware Tools inside your guests.
But installing VMware tools in vSphere 4 or higher has the effect to change
disk timeout for the guest to 180 seconds, from its default of 30 seconds
(that I think is the same for RH EL/ CentOS 5,6,7)
This may or may not help you in case of short time storage problems.
Eg on a 6.5 infrastructure with an old legacy CentOS 5.9 VM I have
VMware Tools: Running, version:8305 (Unsupported older version)
and inside guest
# service vmware-tools status
vmtoolsd is running
#
# find /sys/class/scsi_generic/*/device/timeout -exec grep -H . '{}' \;
/sys/class/scsi_generic/sg0/device/timeout:180
/sys/class/scsi_generic/sg1/device/timeout:180
#
See also:
this if you have access to Red Hat Customer Portal (disk scsi timeout and
how to set it in RH EL 5):
https://access.redhat.com/solutions/301963
Similar considerations for RH EL 6 and 7:
https://access.redhat.com/solutions/2470541
This publicly accessible for RHEL 5
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Online_Storage_Reconfiguration_Guide/task_controlling-scsi-command-timer-onlining-devices.html
this related to vSphere:
https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1009465
this for APD (All Paths Down) timeout that defaults to 140 seconds for
block storage
https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2032934
HIH,
Gianluca
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[CentOS] CentOS 5 file system read only issue
Hello Everyone,
We are using CentOS 5 system for certain application. Those are VM guests
running in VMware. There is datastore issue occasionally, causing all file
systems becoming read only file systems. So application stop working, and
opened files cannot be written either. We cannot even ssh login to the
system. Typically we had to power cycle the VM. We are trying to add
reliability to the application so that if files cannot be written,
application should time out. We are trying to use IO::Select to handle
timeout. Per investigation, we found below does not work as expected:
my $s = IO::Select->new( $fh );
if ( $io->can_write( 10 ) {
# print to the file
}
It seems like can_write returns true even we manually made file system
read only in our testing case.
Is this something we can accomplish using select system call with timeout
value?
Thanks in advance,
- Xinhuan Zheng
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