There is nothing I can think of off the top of my head that would be a
limiting factor preventing SSK from working with multiple file systems.
Unfortunately my test environment is unavailable to look at this right
now.  If you can send some server logs I can take a look although I suspect
Sebastien is more familiar with this code than I am now.

Jeremy

On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 8:01 PM Hans Henrik Happe <[email protected]> wrote:

> We only have one MGS with two filesystems. It evolved into to two due to
> some reconfiguration and the end game is to remove one. Anyway, one of the
> modifications to the new one was to have daily key refresh. Either that
> made the refresh issue more likely or having two filesystems is not a good
> idea. It seemed to work with two so we went on and started to rsync some
> data over. Then we hit the refresh issue. For now I'm just asking if
> multiple filesystems could cause issues.
>
> Anyway, I'm setting up a debug system to test if I can reproduce it with a
> single fs. Then I'll get back with more info about the actual error.
>
> I've attached some client output from the failing system. This was on a
> nodemap with a 120s expire key, for fast testing. It seems that there need
> to be I/O during the refresh to hit this.
>
> A bit more info about the setup. All except mgs is configured for ski
> messaging. mdt2ost is using the default nodemap.
>
> Cheers,
> Hans Henrik
>
>
> On 03.06.2020 18.01, Sebastien Buisson wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Do you use one shared MGS for all your file systems, or does each file system 
> have its own MGS? In the latter case, are the MGSes running on the same node?
>
> You are mentioning a key refresh issue, so I am wondering if you see this 
> issue with multiple file systems only, or if it occurs when you have just one 
> file system setup?
>
> Cheers,
> Sebastien.
>
>
> Le 3 juin 2020 à 15:07, Hans Henrik Happe <[email protected]> <[email protected]> a 
> écrit :
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to hunt down an issue where SSK is failing key refresh on
> 2.12.4. Mounting the filesystem works, but active sessions dies at refresh.
>
> First I would like to get a few things cleared.
>
> Is multiple Lustre filesystems on the same servers supported with SSK?
>
> If so, is it supported to use the same nodemap on each filesystem?
> Obviously, with different keys for each fs.
>
> A mount from an ssh to the root account will create this keyring on
> CentOS 7:
>
> # keyctl show
> Session Keyring
> 669565440 --alswrv      0     0  keyring: _ses
> 458158660 --alswrv      0 65534   \_ keyring: _uid.0
> 129939379 --alswrv      0     0       \_ user: lustre:erda
>
> 65534 usually is nfsnobody but is does not exist on the system. Would
> this be an issue? Even if nfsnobody existed?
>
> A mount through sudo will create this keyring on CentOS 7:
>
> # keyctl show
> Session Keyring
> 381836048 --alswrv      0 65534  keyring: _uid_ses.0
> 423400032 --alswrv      0 65534   \_ keyring: _uid.0
> 934942793 --alswrv      0     0       \_ user: lustre:erda
>
> Again is this a problem?
>
>
> Cheers,
> Hans Henrik
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