On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 4:00 AM, Wido den Hollander <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Op 29 november 2017 om 14:56 schreef Jason Dillaman <[email protected]>: >> >> >> We experienced this problem in the past on older (pre-Jewel) releases >> where a PG split that affected the RBD header object would result in >> the watch getting lost by librados. Any chance you know if the >> affected RBD header objects were involved in a PG split? Can you >> generate a gcore dump of one of the affected VMs and ceph-post-file it >> for analysis? >> > > There was no PG splitting in the recent months on this cluster, so that's not > something that might have happened here.
Possible alternative explanation: are you using cache tiering? > I've asked the OpenStack team for a gcore dump, but they have to get that > cleared before they can send it to me. > > This might take a bit of time! > > Wido > >> As for the VM going R/O, that is the expected behavior when a client >> breaks the exclusive lock held by a (dead) client. >> >> On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 8:48 AM, Wido den Hollander <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > On a OpenStack environment I encountered a VM which went into R/O mode >> > after a RBD snapshot was created. >> > >> > Digging into this I found 10s (out of thousands) RBD images which DO have >> > a running VM, but do NOT have a watcher on the RBD image. >> > >> > For example: >> > >> > $ rbd status volumes/volume-79773f2e-1f40-4eca-b9f0-953fa8d83086 >> > >> > 'Watchers: none' >> > >> > The VM is however running since September 5th 2017 with Jewel 10.2.7 on >> > the client. >> > >> > In the meantime the cluster was already upgraded to 10.2.10 >> > >> > Looking further I also found a Compute node with 10.2.10 installed which >> > also has RBD images without watchers. >> > >> > Restarting or live migrating the VM to a different host resolves this >> > issue. >> > >> > The internet is full of posts where RBD images still have Watchers when >> > people don't expect them, but in this case I'm expecting a watcher which >> > isn't there. >> > >> > The main problem right now is that creating a snapshot potentially puts a >> > VM in Read-Only state because of the lack of notification. >> > >> > Has anybody seen this as well? >> > >> > Thanks, >> > >> > Wido >> > _______________________________________________ >> > ceph-users mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com >> >> >> >> -- >> Jason -- Jason _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
