Jim:

Is the mount-on-boot issue just with your CentOS 6.2 environment?  If so,
which version of OrangeFS are you running?

Becky

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 3:28 PM, Jim Kusznir <[email protected]> wrote:

> I cannot reproduce the pvfs2 crash on demand.  I have not yet seen it
> on centos 6, but I haven't placed centos6 into production yet.
>
> On my centos5 systems, its not reproducible on demand, but it seems to
> happen with moderate file access from a few different processes.
> Sometimes scp'ing files to/from pvfs2 on the head node (which is a
> pvfs2 client) will do it.  This has happened since the beginning of
> pvfs2 for me; on the compute nodes, I'm not sure if there's more than
> one process, but since I updated to OrangeFS 2.8.5, I've been seeing
> compute nodes KP with the previous screenshot (it did not crash (that
> I'm aware of) prior to OrangeFS 2.8.5 on compute nodes).
>
> Here's my /etc/init.d/pvfs2-client script:
> ---------------
> #!/bin/sh
> #
> # chkconfig: 2345 99 99
> #
> # description: mount pvfs2 filesystem
> #
>
> . /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
> #export LD_PRELOAD=/opt/db4/lib/
> case "$1" in
> start)
>         echo -n "Mounting PVFS2 Filesystem: "
>         modprobe pvfs2
>         /opt/pvfs2/sbin/pvfs2-client -p /opt/pvfs2/sbin/pvfs2-client-core
>         mkdir -p /mnt/pvfs2
>         mount -t pvfs2 -o intr tcp://pvfs2-io-0-0:3334/pvfs2-fs /mnt/pvfs2
>         touch /var/lock/subsys/pvfs2-client
>         ;;
>
> stop)
>         echo -n "Unmounting PVFS2 Filesystem: "
>         umount /mnt/pvfs2
>         rm -f /var/lock/subsys/pvfs2-client
>         ;;
>
> restart)
>         $0 stop
>         $0 start
>         ;;
>
> status)
>         status $NAME
>         ;;
> *)
>         echo "Usage: $NAME {start|stop|restart|status}"
>         exit 1
> esac
>
> exit 0
> ----------------
> I've tried with the export commented and uncommented, no difference.
>
> --Jim
>
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Becky Ligon <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Thanks, Jim.
> >
> > We are using 2.6.32-220.4.1.el6.x86_64 in our production environment.
>  So, I
> > should be able to setup a VM with your kernel version and test.  Can you
> > give me a scenario to try in order to reproduce the problem?
> >
> > I am also setting up a CENTOS 6 VM, so I can analyze the mount-with-boot
> > issue.
> >
> > Becky
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Jim Kusznir <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> [root@aeoltest torque]# rpm -qa |grep kernel
> >> kernel-2.6.32-220.13.1.el6.x86_64
> >> dracut-kernel-004-256.el6_2.1.noarch
> >> kernel-devel-2.6.32-220.13.1.el6.x86_64
> >> kernel-headers-2.6.32-220.13.1.el6.x86_64
> >> kernel-firmware-2.6.32-220.13.1.el6.noarch
> >> kernel-doc-2.6.32-220.13.1.el6.noarch
> >> [root@aeoltest torque]# uname -a
> >> Linux aeoltest.local 2.6.32-220.13.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Apr 17
> >> 23:56:34 BST 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> >> [root@aeoltest torque]#
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Becky Ligon <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >> > Jim:
> >> >
> >> > We are working on a few corrections to the user library, as we speak,
> >> > that
> >> > were identified last week.  Using LD_PRELOAD would definitely get
> around
> >> > the
> >> > kernel issues at hand, but I ask that you wait until we have all of
> the
> >> > current corrections in place before using it.
> >> >
> >> > I also have some questions for you.  I am working the issue with the
> >> > "won't
> >> > mount on boot" issue and would like to know the specific kernel that
> you
> >> > are
> >> > using under CentOS 6.2.
> >> >
> >> > Thanks,
> >> > Becky
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Jim Kusznir <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> I managed to get a screenshot of a ip-kvm with the last chunk of a
> >> >> pvfs-induced KP on a compute node; image attached.
> >> >>
> >> >> With respect to client access methods, perhaps I should switch to a
> >> >> user space solution.  I remember hearing about an LD_Preload client
> >> >> module (not using fuse, but being entirely userspace).  Is that
> >> >> "ready" with 2.8.6?  If not, perhaps I need to switch to the fuse
> >> >> module...
> >> >>
> >> >> --Jim
> >> >>
> >> >> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Andrew Savchenko <
> [email protected]>
> >> >> wrote:
> >> >> > Hello Becky,
> >> >> >
> >> >> > On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 12:43:51 -0400 Becky Ligon wrote:
> >> >> >> Andrew:
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> 2.8.6 does not fix the problem you were seeing with question marks
> >> >> >> in
> >> >> >> the
> >> >> >> "ls" output, but we are working on it.
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> Just FYI!
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Thanks for the warning. I'll keep sticking to the fuse client
> during
> >> >> > update then.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Best regards,
> >> >> > Andrew Savchenko
> >> >> >
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> >> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > Becky Ligon
> >> > OrangeFS Support and Development
> >> > Omnibond Systems
> >> > Anderson, South Carolina
> >> >
> >> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Becky Ligon
> > OrangeFS Support and Development
> > Omnibond Systems
> > Anderson, South Carolina
> >
> >
>



-- 
Becky Ligon
OrangeFS Support and Development
Omnibond Systems
Anderson, South Carolina
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