Miguel Angel Gila Arrondo wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> We're seeing the same error message in our Lustre clients when umounting a 
> lustre filesystem, but only in a very specific situation:
> 
> When trying to empty an OST with the simple data migration script 
> (http://manual.lustre.org/manual/LustreManual18_HTML/LustreOperatingTips.html#50532487_pgfId-1292867),
>  
> sometimes inconsistences appear. Doing ls -lh in the client that just ran the 
> script shows 0 file size for some files, while doing it in another client 
> shows 
> the correct file size for the same files. 
> 
> This gets solved by umounting and mounting again the Lustre filesystem, 
> although the mentioned error messages appear in /var/log/messages of the 
> client:
> 
> Dec 22 17:18:49 proof kernelLustreError: 10917:0:
> (ldlm_request.c:1030:ldlm_cli_cancel_req()) Got rc -108 from cancel RPC: 
> canceling anyway
> Dec 22 17:18:49 proof kernelLustreError: 10917:0:
> (ldlm_request.c:1030:ldlm_cli_cancel_req()) Skipped 169 previous similar 
> messages
> Dec 22 17:18:49 proof kernelLustreError: 10917:0:
> (ldlm_request.c:1533:ldlm_cli_cancel_list()) ldlm_cli_cancel_list: -108
> Dec 22 17:18:49 proof kernelLustreError: 10917:0:
> (ldlm_request.c:1533:ldlm_cli_cancel_list()) Skipped 169 previous similar 
> messages
> Dec 22 17:18:49 proof kernelLustre: client ffff81042fccf400 umount complete
> Dec 22 17:19:02 proof kernelLustre: Client userdata-client has started
> 
> Is anybody else seeing these messages in this situation? Does anyboyd know 
> for 
> a workaround??

Like Ewan, our Lustre filesystem is automounted. Whilst I haven't done a 
detailed study, it does look as though these messages occur immediately 
before unmounting the filesystem.

Is automounting a bad idea?

Chris

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