On Sun, Jul 8, 2018 at 3:29 PM, Hesham Ahmed <[email protected]> wrote:

> I also noticed that Gluster Snapshots have the SAME UUID as the main
> LV and if using UUID in fstab, the snapshot device is sometimes
> mounted instead of the primary LV
>
> For instance:
> /etc/fstab contains the following line:
>
> UUID=a0b85d33-7150-448a-9a70-6391750b90ad /gluster_bricks/gv01_data01
> auto inode64,noatime,nodiratime,x-parent=dMeNGb-34lY-wFVL-WF42-
> hlpE-TteI-lMhvvt
> 0 0
>
> # lvdisplay gluster00/lv01_data01
>   --- Logical volume ---
>   LV Path                /dev/gluster00/lv01_data01
>   LV Name                lv01_data01
>   VG Name                gluster00
>
> # mount
> /dev/mapper/gluster00-55e97e7412bf48db99bb389bb708edb8_0 on
> /gluster_bricks/gv01_data01 type xfs
> (rw,noatime,nodiratime,seclabel,attr2,inode64,sunit=
> 1024,swidth=2048,noquota)
>
> Notice above the device mounted at the brick mountpoint is not
> /dev/gluster00/lv01_data01 and instead is one of the snapshot devices
> of that LV
>
> # blkid
> /dev/mapper/gluster00-lv01_shaker_com_sa:
> UUID="a0b85d33-7150-448a-9a70-6391750b90ad" TYPE="xfs"
> /dev/mapper/gluster00-55e97e7412bf48db99bb389bb708edb8_0:
> UUID="a0b85d33-7150-448a-9a70-6391750b90ad" TYPE="xfs"
> /dev/mapper/gluster00-4ca8eef409ec4932828279efb91339de_0:
> UUID="a0b85d33-7150-448a-9a70-6391750b90ad" TYPE="xfs"
> /dev/mapper/gluster00-59992b6c14644f13b5531a054d2aa75c_0:
> UUID="a0b85d33-7150-448a-9a70-6391750b90ad" TYPE="xfs"
> /dev/mapper/gluster00-362b50c994b04284b1664b2e2eb49d09_0:
> UUID="a0b85d33-7150-448a-9a70-6391750b90ad" TYPE="xfs"
> /dev/mapper/gluster00-0b3cc414f4cb4cddb6e81f162cdb7efe_0:
> UUID="a0b85d33-7150-448a-9a70-6391750b90ad" TYPE="xfs"
> /dev/mapper/gluster00-da98ce5efda549039cf45a18e4eacbaf_0:
> UUID="a0b85d33-7150-448a-9a70-6391750b90ad" TYPE="xfs"
> /dev/mapper/gluster00-4ea5cce4be704dd7b29986ae6698a666_0:
> UUID="a0b85d33-7150-448a-9a70-6391750b90ad" TYPE="xfs"
>
> Notice the UUID of LV and its snapshots is the same causing systemd to
> mount one of the snapshot devices instead of LV which results in the
> following gluster error:
>
> gluster> volume start gv01_data01 force
> volume start: gv01_data01: failed: Volume id mismatch for brick
> vhost03:/gluster_bricks/gv01_data01/gv. Expected volume id
> be6bc69b-c6ed-4329-b300-3b9044f375e1, volume id
> 55e97e74-12bf-48db-99bb-389bb708edb8 found
>


We do not recommend gluster volume snapshots for volumes hosting VM images.
Please look at the
https://ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/gluster/gluster-dr/
as an alternative.


> On Sun, Jul 8, 2018 at 12:32 PM <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > I am facing this trouble since version 4.1 up to the latest 4.2.4, once
> > we enable gluster snapshots and accumulate some snapshots (as few as 15
> > snapshots per server) we start having trouble booting the server. The
> > server enters emergency shell upon boot after timing out waiting for
> > snapshot devices. Waiting a few minutes and pressing Control-D then
> boots the server normally. In case of very large number of snapshots (600+)
> it can take days before the sever will boot. Attaching journal
> > log, let me know if you need any other logs.
> >
> > Details of the setup:
> >
> > 3 node hyperconverged oVirt setup (64GB RAM, 8-Core E5 Xeon)
> > oVirt 4.2.4
> > oVirt Node 4.2.4
> > 10Gb Interface
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Hesham S. Ahmed
>
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