Dear Philippe,

Of course!  I've added the uid/gid entries for apache in the mds server passwd 
and group files and now all works.  

Merci,

John


> On Mar 9, 2016, at 12:59 AM, Philippe Weill <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> We use this on our lustre 2.5.3 but now your apache user uid and gid have to 
> be known on mds server
> 
> Le 09/03/2016 03:05, John Dubinski a écrit :
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'm wondering if there are any developments on this front.
>> 
>> We also NFS export some lustre filesystems from a client to an apache server 
>> so that users can link to their large datasets on their personal websites.  
>> This has been working for years for us using lustre 1.8.
>> 
>> We recently built some new systems using lustre 2.5.3 and now this 
>> functionality is broken in the same way that Eric describes - symlinks to 
>> directories and files on the lustre filesystem are denied by the apache 
>> server.  This doesn't seem to be due to our apache configuration since 
>> symlinks to files and directories in ordinary (non-lustre) nfs-mounted 
>> filesystems work.  Also the nfs-exported filesystems behave normally - you 
>> can copy files in, as well as create and delete files as you wish.
>> The only problems arise in relation to apache access.
>> 
>> We've also noticed that whenever the forbidden access messages comes up in 
>> the browser /var/log/messages on the lustre client spits out this error 
>> consistently:
>> 
>> Mar  8 19:53:14 nuexport02 kernel: LustreError: 
>> 2626:0:(mdc_locks.c:918:mdc_enqueue()) ldlm_cli_enqueue: -13
>> 
>> This appears to be related to file locking looking at the code...
>> 
>> We have also built a test apache server with lustre client modules that 
>> directly mount our lustre filesystems.  symlinks to the directories in the 
>> lustre fs within /var/www/html similarly return the forbidden access message 
>> with the above mdc_locks error.
>> 
>> We're running CentOS 6 with lustre 2.5.3 on the client and server side.  To 
>> repeat, direct client mounts of the lustre filesystems behave normally as 
>> well as nfs-exported mounts.  Only apache access to symlinks of files on a 
>> lustre filesystem give trouble.
>> 
>> Are there any special nfs export flags that can be set to help in 
>> /etc/exports?
>> 
>> Thanks for any help or insight!
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> John
>> 
>> ----------
>> John Dubinski
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>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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