On 6/27/25 3:11 PM, richman10000...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi! > > > Description > I have an issue with openvswitch on server. > few month ago had issue with server being inaccessible. > > Probable cause: > After investigation I think found a reason for that. > folder /var is on the disk (HDD RAID) > folder /run is in memory(tmpfs) > symlink //var/run -> /run/ > > But openvswitch sockets are at location //var/run/ > / > /lsof | grep "var/run" > ovsdb-ser 593 root 15u unix > 0x00000000065cc4dd 0t0 12496 /var/run/openvswitch/db.sock > type=STREAM > ovsdb-ser 593 root 16u unix > 0x00000000d853813b 0t0 12497 > /var/run/openvswitch/ovsdb-server.593.ctl type=STREAM > ovsdb-ser 593 root 18u unix > 0x000000004cba3d40 0t0 12544 /var/run/openvswitch/db.sock > type=STREAM > ovs-vswit 641 root 9u unix > 0x000000007acb4cf4 0t0 16459 > /var/run/openvswitch/ovs-vswitchd.641.ctl type=STREAM > ovs-vswit 641 root 48u unix > 0x000000003b097565 0t0 25826 > /var/run/openvswitch/ovs-inter.mgmt type=STREAM > ovs-vswit 641 root 49u unix > 0x00000000a1bb850e 0t0 25827 > /var/run/openvswitch/ovs-inter.snoop type=STREAM/ > > > During heaving IO to disk folder /var becomes frozen. ls -l will not > return anything. > since /var contains "run" symlink this results in ovs daemons to fail > and virtual switch stops working. > > Proposed solution: > the solution is to move all pid and sockets to folder */run *but is > seems this is hard-coded into ovs daemons. > I've tried to change in conf.db /"rundir","/var/run/openvswitch" /but ovs. > But if I remove //var/run symlink - /*OVS services will not start! > *
The rundir is defined at the build time. If you're building OVS yourself you may specify --with-rundir=/run/openvswitch for the ./configure script to override the default. If you're using already built binary, you should be able to override the value by exporting OVS_RUNDIR=/run/openvswitch before starting OVS. Note that all OVS programs will use the same defaults and you'll need to export this variable before using any OVS utilities like ovs-vsctl or ovs-appctl, otherwise they may have trouble finding the right paths. Best regards, Ilya Maximets. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list d...@openvswitch.org https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
