Jim:

I have been able to successfully mount-on-boot on a VM with the
2.6.32-220.13.1.el6.x86_64.  However, I was using the Scientific Linux 6
distro and NOT CentOS 6.2.  Next, I will try a CentOS 6.2 distro and see
what happens with it.

Becky

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Becky Ligon <[email protected]> wrote:

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