Bugs item #570720, was opened at 2002-06-18 12:04 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by dnl You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=109368&aid=570720&group_id=9368
Category: Installation Group: Future Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Thomas Naughton (naughtont) >Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: NFS '/home' checking Initial Comment: This may be handled currently in docs but a local user hit it so...here's a bug. The '/home' partition was added to the partition file. OSCAR's config of NFS '/home' is not sanity checked for this issue...problems ensue. :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: David N. Lombard (dnl) Date: 2005-02-22 11:41 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=27334 Thomas, What does this mean????? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Michael Chase-Salerno (mchasal) Date: 2003-03-06 14:26 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=99742 Actually, SIS cannot check that /home is on NFS. That is an OSCAR specific requirement, so we can't push it into SIS. We can check that partitions are not defined twice as I can't really think of a reason why that would be done. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Jason Brechin (brechin) Date: 2003-03-06 14:16 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=274641 Actually, this should be checked as the following: If no partition is defined more than once, no problems. If a partition is defined more than once, then there is a problem. If the /home partition is not using NFS, then there is a problem. Since this is error-checking that goes with the SIS build image stuff, it should go into their scripty-foo that handles image building. IIRC, this is systeminstaller, so that's Mike C-S, right? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Michael Chase-Salerno (mchasal) Date: 2002-07-01 16:40 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=99742 I didn't see what release the user hit this problem on, but in 1.3 the NFS /home is right in the partition table also, so it will be much more obvious that it is going to happen. Previously it was buried in a script somewhere. If a local /home is desired, the line can just be removed. Of course we should document that we require that the home dirs be synced somehow and that we only really support NFS /home. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Jason Brechin (brechin) Date: 2002-06-27 15:44 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=274641 Many OSCAR features require the current setup, like the ssh key generation and handling. Perhaps if users want to have per-node "home-like" directories, they can put in a /home2 or something like that which won't interfere with the functionality of numerous packages ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Ferri (richferri) Date: 2002-06-18 15:25 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=62315 I'm punting this to 1.4 based on the fact that it has existed since time began. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Thomas Naughton (naughtont) Date: 2002-06-18 15:03 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=288102 [tjn verbose mode] The sanity check relates to a comment recv'd from a local user, here's the email: > Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 15:41:37 -0400 (EDT) > Subject: a home surprise > Guys, > > When I installed OSCAR, I edited the disk partition file for the > clients to include a /home partition. Imagine my surprise upon logging onto > the clients and finding I had 2 /home filesystems mounted! > > Apparently OSCAR automatically set up the clients to NFS-mount /home > on the server node, as well as the the /home I asked for in the disk > partition file. > > I've got it straightened out and all is well, but it looks like perhaps > this feature should be mentioned in the install doc someplace. Just a > suggestion. (Like I said initially, this "may be handled currently in docs but..." if we "...sanity checked for this issue..." we could avoid or alert folks of the potential problem.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Brian Luethke (luethkeb) Date: 2002-06-18 14:58 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=555987 basically someone here tried creating a partition for /home on each cluster node, they did not want /home nfs mounted. Currently OSCAR does not support this, it screwed up a lot of things. The sanity check is to see if /home has a seperate partition before NFS mounting /home (and, of course, if it does do not NFS mount /home). We think it will break much less than blindly NFS mounting it. At the very least it needs added to the docs what to do. Point being that if a partition is given to each cluster node for /home then it is a pretty safe bet that they want /home to be local to each node. Either have it automate this or document it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Ferri (richferri) Date: 2002-06-18 14:57 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=62315 Tom, this sounds like another area where we could do more sanity checking, but does not sound like a show stopping bug for 1.3. I'm inclined to punt this to 1.4, but would be willing to listen to arguments otherwise... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Michael Chase-Salerno (mchasal) Date: 2002-06-18 14:35 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=99742 I don't understand what should be "sanity checked". Are you saying that the NFS setup to allow the mounting of /home is not checked? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Brian Luethke (luethkeb) Date: 2002-06-18 13:36 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=555987 hmm, you seem to have just restated the bug. The point was that this is a resonable sanity check and something we will run into later. Plus it should not be a hard problem to fix. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Jason Brechin (brechin) Date: 2002-06-18 13:18 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=274641 This only causes a problem if users desire each node to have their own /home, which OSCAR doesn't support. NFS will just mount /home over any /home already in place (as we do now). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=109368&aid=570720&group_id=9368 ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. 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