[Ocfs2-users] A bug in OCFS2 umount

2013-07-26 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
Looks like I found a bug in regards to unmounts. Umount allows you to use directory or device name to unmounts a file system. On at least the OEL6.3 server I am working on, umounting based on device name will lead to a message says that the device is not mounted. This only happens with OCFS2 fil

Re: [Ocfs2-users] Problems with volumes coming from RHEL5 going to OEL6 (slighly OT)

2013-07-10 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
: Wednesday, July 10, 2013 09:54 To: Mihail Daskalov Cc: Sunil Mushran; Ulf Zimmermann; ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] Problems with volumes coming from RHEL5 going to OEL6 (slighly OT) It's possible that the 1.8.0 tag was never created in the ocfs-tools git repos

Re: [Ocfs2-users] Problems with volumes coming from RHEL5 going to OEL6 (slighly OT)

2013-07-10 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
So far we only have OEL Network, but no support as we are still in the investigation phase of switching to OEL from RHEL. So no support yet that route. From: Mihail Daskalov [mailto:mdaska...@technologica.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2013 07:55 To: Sunil Mushran; Ulf Zimmermann Cc: ocfs2

Re: [Ocfs2-users] Problems with volumes coming from RHEL5 going to OEL6

2013-07-10 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
ocfs\* ocfs2-tools-1.8.0-10.el6.x86_64 Those tools are from the OEL install base. [root@co-db03 ulf]# tunefs.ocfs2 -V tunefs.ocfs2 1.8.0 [root@co-db03 ulf]# fsck.ocfs2 -V fsck.ocfs2 1.8.0 From: Sunil Mushran [mailto:sunil.mush...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2013 16:11 To: Ulf Zimmermann

Re: [Ocfs2-users] Problems with volumes coming from RHEL5 going to OEL6

2013-07-09 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
Sunil, any suggestions on this? From: ocfs2-users-boun...@oss.oracle.com [mailto:ocfs2-users-boun...@oss.oracle.com] On Behalf Of Ulf Zimmermann Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2013 15:20 To: Sunil Mushran Cc: ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] Problems with volumes coming from

Re: [Ocfs2-users] Problems with volumes coming from RHEL5 going to OEL6

2013-06-22 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
535 From: Sunil Mushran [mailto:sunil.mush...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, June 21, 2013 11:11 To: Ulf Zimmermann Cc: ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] Problems with volumes coming from RHEL5 going to OEL6 Can you dump the following using the 1.8 binary. debugfs.ocfs2 -R "sta

[Ocfs2-users] Problems with volumes coming from RHEL5 going to OEL6

2013-06-21 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
We have a production cluster of 6 nodes, which are currently running RHEL 5.8 with OCFS2 1.4.10. We snapclone these volumes to multiple destinations, one of them is a RHEL4 machine with OCFS2 1.2.9. Because of that the volumes are set so that we can read them there. We are now trying to bring u

Re: [Ocfs2-users] Unable to Install Ocfs2 in Oracle Linux 5 Machine.

2013-03-20 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
To be move exact to the other replies: You are trying to install 3 packages: ocfs2-2.6.18-308.4.1.el5-1.4.10-1.el5.x86_64.rpm ocfs2-2.6.18-308.4.1.el5debug-1.4.10-1.el5.x86_64.rpm ocfs2-2.6.18-308.4.1.el5xen-1.4.10-1.el5.x86_64.rpm The el5debug package is only needed if you are running the Debug

Re: [Ocfs2-users] Subject: problem configuring ocfs on rhel5.8 kernel 2.6.18-300.el5

2012-09-12 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
What is your kernel version? Run “uname –r” My guess is that your kernel is not 2.6.18-238.9.1.el5 nor 2.6.18-308.1.1.el5 You will need to install the matching ocfs2-2.6.18-300.el5-1.4.9-1.el5.x86_64 package. From: ocfs2-users-boun...@oss.oracle.com [mailto:ocfs2-users-boun...@oss.oracle.com]

Re: [Ocfs2-users] RPM packages for EL5 U8 kernel 2.6.18-308.11.1.el5?

2012-07-30 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
> Latest packages at oss.oracle.com is 308.8.1.el5, any plans to provide > packages for 308.11.1.el5? Never mind, there is OCFS2 1.4.10, which has the packages. ___ Ocfs2-users mailing list Ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com https://oss.oracle.com/mailman/lis

[Ocfs2-users] RPM packages for EL5 U8 kernel 2.6.18-308.11.1.el5?

2012-07-27 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
Latest packages at oss.oracle.com is 308.8.1.el5, any plans to provide packages for 308.11.1.el5? Ulf. ___ Ocfs2-users mailing list Ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com https://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/ocfs2-users

Re: [Ocfs2-users] Problem with tunefs.ocfs2, similar to fsck.ocfs2 on EL5

2011-09-27 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
> -Original Message- > From: Sunil Mushran [mailto:sunil.mush...@oracle.com] > Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 9:27 AM > To: Ulf Zimmermann > Cc: ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com > Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] Problem with tunefs.ocfs2, similar to fsck.ocfs2 on > EL5 >

Re: [Ocfs2-users] Problem with tunefs.ocfs2, similar to fsck.ocfs2 on EL5

2011-09-27 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
- -Original Message- > From: Sunil Mushran [mailto:sunil.mush...@oracle.com] > Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 10:09 AM > To: Ulf Zimmermann > Cc: ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com > Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] Problem with tunefs.ocfs2, similar to fsck.ocfs2 on > EL5 > >

Re: [Ocfs2-users] Problem with tunefs.ocfs2, similar to fsck.ocfs2 on EL5

2011-09-25 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
ocfs2-users-boun...@oss.oracle.com [mailto:ocfs2-users- > boun...@oss.oracle.com] On Behalf Of Ulf Zimmermann > Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2011 1:43 AM > To: ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com > Subject: [Ocfs2-users] Problem with tunefs.ocfs2, similar to fsck.ocfs2 on EL5 > > We are

[Ocfs2-users] Problem with tunefs.ocfs2, similar to fsck.ocfs2 on EL5

2011-09-25 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
We are running into a problem which looks like the same we had with fsck.ocfs2 a while back. This is with ocfs2-tools 1.4.4. I am trying to use tunefs.ocfs2 to turn off some features. The program starts up but then starts eating all available memory and more and the system starts to swap like cr

Re: [Ocfs2-users] mount type heartbeat=local

2011-09-14 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
Sunil, I was trying to see what the speed difference would be if I mount a volume with no heartbeat (for copy purpose): dbtest01 root /home/ulf # mount -o datavolume,nointr,heartbeat=none /dev/mapper/350002ac001380dab /export/coptest/ dbtest01 root /home/ulf # mount /dev/mapper/350002ac001380dab

[Ocfs2-users] Any suggestions how to copy between two OCFS2 volumes faster?

2011-06-15 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
I need to copy a number of volumes from one SAN to another SAN. Most of our volumes are snapclone based, so moving those has been easy. But we got several 700GB volumes, which I can't move that way. Doing an umount/mount local (no network lock?) doesn't seem help, speed is only about 20MB/sec us

Re: [Ocfs2-users] Linux RHEL 5.2 hangs for 1.5 hrs while fsck'ing the OCFS2 file system

2011-04-20 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
While you run it, what is the memory usage? Is the system going into swap? Our 700GB large volume would take over half a day or more to finish, due to the system constantly having to swap. From: Sergey Prilutsky [mailto:sprilut...@hotmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 5:22 AM To: Ulf

Re: [Ocfs2-users] Linux RHEL 5.2 hangs for 1.5 hrs while fsck'ing the OCFS2 file system

2011-04-19 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
If you are using ocfs2-tools-1.4.4, there is a bug with memory usage. Sunil provided me a patched version, which is afik still not in the downloadable tools version. From: ocfs2-users-boun...@oss.oracle.com [mailto:ocfs2-users-boun...@oss.oracle.com] On Behalf Of Sergey Prilutsky Sent: Tuesday

Re: [Ocfs2-users] What could cause slow down betwen OCFS2 1.2.9 and 1.4.4

2011-03-12 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
rch 11, 2011 8:31 PM > To: Sunil Mushran; Ulf Zimmermann > Cc: ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com > Subject: RE: [Ocfs2-users] What could cause slow down betwen OCFS2 1.2.9 > and 1.4.4 > > May I ask how you change these parameter ? > > Also, for a 90 percent read ocfs2, shoul

Re: [Ocfs2-users] What could cause slow down betwen OCFS2 1.2.9 and 1.4.4

2011-03-11 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
Another change we found is we used scheduler deadline, we are doing downtime tonight to change scheduler and journal mode. Ulf Zimmermann | Senior System Architect OPENLANE, Inc | 2200 Bridge Parkway, Suite 202 Redwood City, CA 94065 | (650) 412-4042 u...@openlane.com On Mar 11, 2011, at 14

[Ocfs2-users] What could cause slow down betwen OCFS2 1.2.9 and 1.4.4

2011-03-11 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
We upgraded our production database cluster (6 node) from EL4 Update 5 to EL5 Update 5, including upgrading OCFS2 from 1.2.9 to 1.4.4. We are now noticing slowdown of batch jobs in Oracle, while hotbackup runs faster. One thing we saw is that journal mode changed from write-back to ordered, as

Re: [Ocfs2-users] Reservation conflicts

2010-12-09 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
> -Original Message- > From: ocfs2-users-boun...@oss.oracle.com [mailto:ocfs2-users- > boun...@oss.oracle.com] On Behalf Of Joel Becker > Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2010 2:54 PM > To: brad hancock > Cc: ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com > Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] Reservation conflicts > > On

Re: [Ocfs2-users] new release 1.4.8.1

2010-12-07 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
> -Original Message- > From: ocfs2-users-boun...@oss.oracle.com [mailto:ocfs2-users- > boun...@oss.oracle.com] On Behalf Of Sunil Mushran > Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 9:57 AM > To: Dag Wieers > Cc: ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com > Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] new release 1.4.8.1 > > On 12/

Re: [Ocfs2-users] heartbeat and slot issues.

2010-11-24 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
Then you haven't cloned the volume, but it is the same, would be my guess. From: brad hancock [mailto:braddhanc...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 1:54 PM To: Ulf Zimmermann Cc: ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] heartbeat and slot issues. Thanks fo

Re: [Ocfs2-users] heartbeat and slot issues.

2010-11-24 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
After the clone, you want to probably run tunefs.ocfs2 -U to reset the UUID. This is one of the steps we do when cloning volumes for database refreshes. From: ocfs2-users-boun...@oss.oracle.com [mailto:ocfs2-users-boun...@oss.oracle.com] On Behalf Of brad hancock Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2

Re: [Ocfs2-users] some beginner questions

2010-07-14 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
As Sunil already wrote: iSCSI, FC attached SAN, Firewire (not really recommended for production). > -Original Message- > From: Alexander Nagel [mailto:alexan...@acwn.de] > Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 12:44 PM > To: Ulf Zimmermann > Cc: Ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com > S

Re: [Ocfs2-users] some beginner questions

2010-07-14 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
OCFS2 requires shared storage. Is /dev/sdb a shared device? > -Original Message- > From: ocfs2-users-boun...@oss.oracle.com [mailto:ocfs2-users- > boun...@oss.oracle.com] On Behalf Of Alexander Nagel > Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 12:03 PM > To: Ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com > Subject: [Oc

Re: [Ocfs2-users] df showing wrong size

2010-06-28 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
Make sure you don't have deleted files, which are still open. You can use lsof to find those. From: ocfs2-users-boun...@oss.oracle.com [mailto:ocfs2-users-boun...@oss.oracle.com] On Behalf Of Garcia, Raymundo Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2010 11:18 PM To: ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com Subject: [Ocfs2-us

Re: [Ocfs2-users] Why OCFS2 with RAC

2010-06-16 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
> -Original Message- > From: ocfs2-users-boun...@oss.oracle.com [mailto:ocfs2-users- > boun...@oss.oracle.com] On Behalf Of David Johle > Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 10:37 AM > To: ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com > Subject: [Ocfs2-users] Why OCFS2 with RAC > > I have been a user of OCFS2 for

Re: [Ocfs2-users] Info on Version Upgrade

2010-06-16 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
We have been running the -55 kernel for a long time on our Oracle servers, there is one issue for us known, which is a memory leak in the kernel in conjunction with HP management agents, but otherwise -55 has been ok for us. But there have been plenty of fixes in newer kernels, but also traps. W

[Ocfs2-users] ocfs2 tools, bug 1255

2010-06-04 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
Sunil, Tao, Can you tell me an estimation when a new tools package with this patch will be available, I will have to give an answer to people and weigh if I want to build an own version or wait for the package from you guys. Ulf. ___ Ocfs2-users mai

Re: [Ocfs2-users] fsck.ocfs2 using huge amount of memory?

2010-05-20 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
> -Original Message- > From: Joel Becker [mailto:joel.bec...@oracle.com] > Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 6:31 PM > To: Ulf Zimmermann > Cc: ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com > Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] fsck.ocfs2 using huge amount of memory? > > On Thu, May 20, 2010

Re: [Ocfs2-users] fsck.ocfs2 using huge amount of memory?

2010-05-20 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
> -Original Message- > From: ocfs2-users-boun...@oss.oracle.com [mailto:ocfs2-users- > boun...@oss.oracle.com] On Behalf Of Ulf Zimmermann > Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 6:37 PM > To: 'Joel Becker' > Cc: ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com > Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-user

Re: [Ocfs2-users] fsck.ocfs2 using huge amount of memory?

2010-05-20 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
Bug 1255 > -Original Message- > From: Sunil Mushran [mailto:sunil.mush...@oracle.com] > Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 6:30 PM > To: Ulf Zimmermann > Cc: ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com > Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] fsck.ocfs2 using huge amount of memory? > > http:/

Re: [Ocfs2-users] fsck.ocfs2 using huge amount of memory?

2010-05-20 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
ocfs2 > -Original Message- > From: Ulf Zimmermann > Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 6:06 PM > To: Ulf Zimmermann; ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com > Subject: RE: fsck.ocfs2 using huge amount of memory? > > Correction, kernel module

Re: [Ocfs2-users] fsck.ocfs2 using huge amount of memory?

2010-05-20 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
Correction, kernel modules are 1.4.4, the tools and console is 1.4.3. > -Original Message- > From: ocfs2-users-boun...@oss.oracle.com [mailto:ocfs2-users- > boun...@oss.oracle.com] On Behalf Of Ulf Zimmermann > Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 6:00 PM > To: ocfs2-users

[Ocfs2-users] fsck.ocfs2 using huge amount of memory?

2010-05-20 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
We are setting up 2 new EL5 U4 machines to replace our current database servers running our demo environment. We use 3Par SANs and their snap clone options. The current production system we snap clone from is EL4 U5 with ocfs2 1.2.9, the new servers have ocfs2 1.4.3 installed. Part of the refre

Re: [Ocfs2-users] OCFS2 works like standalone

2010-05-05 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
OCFS needs shared storage, your /dev/sda sounds like local storage, not shared. From: ocfs2-users-boun...@oss.oracle.com [mailto:ocfs2-users-boun...@oss.oracle.com] On Behalf Of v...@ghs.l.google.com Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 11:16 AM To: ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com Subject: [Ocfs2-users] OC

Re: [Ocfs2-users] compile error on sles 11

2010-04-28 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
Oh the joy that is SAP ... I love how you have to have a shared file system from SAP application server to the database server. As far I know it is to put their scripts/binaries for database maintenance (like backup) on the App Server. I think it is a terrible hack. (I got similar thoughts about

Re: [Ocfs2-users] OCFS2 Multipath Configuration

2010-03-18 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
On our 3Par SAN we use O2CB_HEARTBEAT_THRESHOLD of 76 (180 seconds). This is the time needed for the controller to fully recover in case of a crash or software upgrade. Multipath is configured with a polling_interval of 10, no_path_retry of 60. With these settings we are able to survive SAN swit

Re: [Ocfs2-users] Fencing options

2010-01-13 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
> -Original Message- > > Questions: > Can we set up redundant heartbeat ip connections? Can we also add a > disk heartbeat? If it truly is network connectivity, can we set the > timeout to be more lenient? And can we change the fencing to something > other than machine reset? Eg unmount

Re: [Ocfs2-users] migration methods (ocfs <-> ocfs2)

2009-10-21 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
For backup/restore the doubt is the same. We can restore > ocfs > > backup to an ocfs2, could we also restore ocfs2 backup to an ocfs > volume? > > > > Thanx a lot Ulf Zimmermann | Senior System Architect OPENLANE 4600 Bohannon Drive, Suite 100 Menlo Park, CA 94025 O: 650

Re: [Ocfs2-users] formatting and mounting ocfs2 on 2 rac nodes

2009-10-21 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
> > Thanks a lot > Corne > Ulf Zimmermann | Senior System Architect OPENLANE 4600 Bohannon Drive, Suite 100 Menlo Park, CA 94025 O: 650-532-6382 M: (510) 396-1764 F: (510) 580-0929 Email: u...@openlane.com | Web: www.openlane.com _

Re: [Ocfs2-users] Persistent lun problem

2009-10-21 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
Look at device-mapper-multipath Regards, Ulf. - OPENLANE Inc., T: 650-532-6382, F: 650-532-6441 4600 Bohannon Drive, Suite 100, Menlo Park, CA 94025 - > -Or

Re: [Ocfs2-users] second ocfs2 volume

2009-10-21 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
> -Original Message- > From: ocfs2-users-boun...@oss.oracle.com [mailto:ocfs2-users- > boun...@oss.oracle.com] On Behalf Of James Pifer > Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 10:34 AM > To: ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com > Subject: [Ocfs2-users] second ocfs2 volume > > I've been using a 300GB ocf

Re: [Ocfs2-users] OCFS2 mount points not automatically mounting onserver reboot

2009-08-06 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
Isn't your problem that you are setting the filesystem type to "ocfs2_oracw" and "ocfs2_oragrid" ? Unless this has changed after 1.2.9, it should be "ocfs2". From: ocfs2-users-boun...@oss.oracle.com [mailto:ocfs2-users-boun...@oss.oracle.com] On Behalf Of McKinley, Reid Sent: Thursday, August 0

Re: [Ocfs2-users] Q: install ocfs2 on SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 SP4

2009-08-01 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
> From: ocfs2-users-boun...@oss.oracle.com > [mailto:ocfs2-users-boun...@oss.oracle.com] On Behalf Of Sun > Sent: Saturday, August 01, 2009 10:40 PM > To: ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com > Subject: [Ocfs2-users] Q: install ocfs2 on SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 SP4 > > Hello! everybody here!   >  

Re: [Ocfs2-users] OCFS2 FS with BACKUP Tools/Vendors

2009-04-02 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
> From: ocfs2-users-boun...@oss.oracle.com > [mailto:ocfs2-users-boun...@oss.oracle.com] On Behalf Of Daniel Keisling > Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 1:22 PM > To: Bumpass, Brian; ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com > Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] OCFS2 FS with BACKUP Tools/Vendors > > I use HP Data Protecto

Re: [Ocfs2-users] mounting mpath devices

2009-02-27 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
> -Original Message- > From: ocfs2-users-boun...@oss.oracle.com [mailto:ocfs2-users- > boun...@oss.oracle.com] On Behalf Of Masaryk Kevin D > Sent: 02/24/2009 13:21 > To: ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com > Subject: [Ocfs2-users] mounting mpath devices > > I'm seeing some strange behavior from OC

Re: [Ocfs2-users] future of ocfs2

2009-02-06 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
> -Original Message- > From: ocfs2-users-boun...@oss.oracle.com [mailto:ocfs2-users- > boun...@oss.oracle.com] On Behalf Of Jeremy Schneider > Sent: 02/06/2009 11:19 > To: Sunil Mushran > Cc: oracl...@freelists.org; ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com > Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] future of ocfs2 >

Re: [Ocfs2-users] strange node reboot in RAC environment

2009-02-03 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
> -Original Message- > From: ocfs2-users-boun...@oss.oracle.com [mailto:ocfs2-users- > boun...@oss.oracle.com] On Behalf Of Pedro Figueira > Sent: 02/03/2009 09:07 > To: ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com > Cc: Ricardo Rocha Ramalho; Pedro Lopes Almeida > Subject: [Ocfs2-users] strange node reboot

Re: [Ocfs2-users] ocfs2 hangs during webserver usage

2009-01-28 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
> -Original Message- > From: ocfs2-users-boun...@oss.oracle.com [mailto:ocfs2-users- > boun...@oss.oracle.com] On Behalf Of David Johle > Sent: 01/28/2009 10:12 > To: jmose...@corp.xanadoo.com > Cc: ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com > Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] ocfs2 hangs during webserver usage >

Re: [Ocfs2-users] Another node is heartbeating in ourslot! errorswith LUN removal/addition

2008-12-05 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
C nodes again Recover database from logs and modify name to the development name At this point after other script run to modify contents in the database (email addresses, phone numbers, etc) And voila database is ready for use by developers. Ulf Zimmermann | Senior System Architect OPENLANE 4600 Bohannon

Re: [Ocfs2-users] Generic question about cluster communication (with user mode heartbeat)

2008-11-26 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:ocfs2-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Petri Asikainen > Sent: 11/26/2008 11:57 > To: Sunil Mushran > Cc: ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com > Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] Generic question about cluster communication > (with user mode hear

Re: [Ocfs2-users] OCFS2 with Loop device

2008-10-03 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
magic number in superblock while opening device > /dev/loop0) > i tried to format on each server and then mount again with works > but it then i don't see > changes i make in /cawww on the other servers. > it seems that each server isn't aware of the other servers. &

[Ocfs2-users] OCFS2 1.2.9-1 kernel modules for RedHat EL4 kernel 2.6.9-67.0.20?

2008-07-07 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
I am looking at upgrading from the RHEL4U5 kernel set to U6 or beyond. Updates has 2.6.9-67.0.20, oss site only has rpms for up to 2.6.9-67.0.15. Any ETA for .20 modules? Ulf Zimmermann | Senior System Architect OPENLANE 4600 Bohannon Drive, Suite 100 Menlo Park, CA 94025 O: 650-532-6382 M

Re: [Ocfs2-users] Node reboot during network outage

2008-07-07 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
turning one off. We also had an Ethernet port in a machine itself fail and it used the second port almost immediately. Ulf Zimmermann | Senior System Architect OPENLANE 4600 Bohannon Drive, Suite 100 Menlo Park, CA 94025 O: 650-532-6382 M: (510) 396-1764 F: (510) 580-0929 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [Ocfs2-users] OCFS2 and Cloning

2008-02-26 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
age- > From: Sunil Mushran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 15:49 > To: Ulf Zimmermann > Cc: ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com > Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] OCFS2 and Cloning > > While fsck.ocfs2 replays the journals, it does not clean the orphan > dir

[Ocfs2-users] OCFS2 and Cloning

2008-02-25 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
I am working currently on cloning on a regular basis our production OCFS2 volumes to our test environment. For the database (Oracle 10G R2 RAC) we put it into backup mode, then execute a Snapclone on our 3Par SAN. Then we use RemoteCopy and SnapClone to our development 3Par SAN. To recover the OCF

RE: [Ocfs2-users] Anyone have an idea how to find file i/othroughput?

2008-02-19 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
> Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 01:43 > To: Ulf Zimmermann > Cc: ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com > Subject: RE: [Ocfs2-users] Anyone have an idea how to find file > i/othroughput? > > Ulf, > > Have you considered using systemtap? There is a recipe here that could >

RE: [Ocfs2-users] Anyone have an idea how to find file i/o throughput?

2008-02-18 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
; From: Sunil Mushran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 19:28 > To: Ulf Zimmermann > Cc: ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com > Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] Anyone have an idea how to find file i/o > throughput? > > If a userspace process is behind the io surge, the

[Ocfs2-users] Anyone have an idea how to find file i/o throughput?

2008-02-17 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
We got a remote Oracle 10g R2 standby running on OCFS2. Initial when we started the standby, read I/O was < 5MB/sec on average. Since then it has grown to over 40MB/sec (longer average, it peaks much higher). Here is a graph showing this: http://www.alameda.net/~ulf/dbphx01.png We also have a loc

RE: [Ocfs2-users] OCFS2 DLM problems

2008-01-23 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
. > -Original Message- > From: Sunil Mushran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 1:07 PM > To: Ulf Zimmermann > Cc: ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com > Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] OCFS2 DLM problems > > Depends on the net traffic I guess. The error ret

RE: [Ocfs2-users] OCFS2 DLM problems

2008-01-23 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 9:58 AM To: Ulf Zimmermann Cc: ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] OCFS2 DLM problems 1.2.5-what? If you are not on 1.2.5-6, upgrade to that. It could be you are hitting the following issue addressed in that release. r3033 tcp

[Ocfs2-users] OCFS2 DLM problems

2008-01-23 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
quot; on dbprd02 and "dlm_send_proxy_ast_msg", "dlm_flush_asts" on dbprd01. We are currently running OCFS2 1.2.5, the kernel is EL4 Update 5 x86_64 (2.6.9-55.ELsmp). I see there is one bug fixed in 1.2.6/1.2.7 related to DLM and I was wondering if the above problem could be related to it

RE: [Ocfs2-users] Missing something basic...

2007-10-17 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
You need shared storage to use OCFS, not local storage on each server. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:ocfs2-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Benjamin Smith > Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 18:00 > To: ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com > Subject: [Ocfs2-users] Mi

RE: [Ocfs2-users] Cluster setup

2007-10-12 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
You have Oracle people telling us not to use bonding. > -Original Message- > From: Sunil Mushran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 15:28 > To: Ulf Zimmermann > Cc: Randy Ramsdell; ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com > Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] Cluster

RE: [Ocfs2-users] Cluster setup

2007-10-11 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
007 15:13 > To: Ulf Zimmermann > Cc: Randy Ramsdell; ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com > Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] Cluster setup > > Use network bonding. > > Ulf Zimmermann wrote: > >> -Original Message- > >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:ocfs2-users- &g

RE: [Ocfs2-users] Cluster setup

2007-10-11 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:ocfs2-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alexei_Roudnev > Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 11:10 > To: Sunil Mushran; Randy Ramsdell > Cc: ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com > Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] Cluster setup > > I explained you:

RE: [Ocfs2-users] 6 node cluster with unexplained reboots

2007-08-31 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
age- > From: Hagmann, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 23:47 > To: ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com > Cc: Ulf Zimmermann; Sunil Mushran > Subject: RE: [Ocfs2-users] 6 node cluster with unexplained reboots > > Hi > > I have the same situat

RE: [Ocfs2-users] 6 node cluster with unexplained reboots

2007-08-16 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
> -Original Message- > From: Mark Fasheh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 16:49 > To: Ulf Zimmermann > Cc: Sunil Mushran; ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com > Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] 6 node cluster with unexplained reboots > > On Mon, Au

RE: [Ocfs2-users] 6 node cluster with unexplained reboots

2007-08-15 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
> -Original Message- > From: Mark Fasheh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 18:12 > To: Ulf Zimmermann > Cc: Sunil Mushran; ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com > Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] 6 node cluster with unexplained reboots > > On Wed, Au

RE: [Ocfs2-users] 6 node cluster with unexplained reboots

2007-08-15 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
> -Original Message- > From: Mark Fasheh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 18:04 > To: Alexei_Roudnev > Cc: Ulf Zimmermann; Sunil Mushran; ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com > Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] 6 node cluster with unexplained reboots > >

RE: [Ocfs2-users] 6 node cluster with unexplained reboots

2007-08-15 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
> -Original Message- > From: Mark Fasheh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 17:50 > To: Ulf Zimmermann > Cc: Sunil Mushran; ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com > Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] 6 node cluster with unexplained reboots > > On Wed, Au

RE: [Ocfs2-users] 6 node cluster with unexplained reboots

2007-08-15 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
> -Original Message- > From: Mark Fasheh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 16:49 > To: Ulf Zimmermann > Cc: Sunil Mushran; ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com > Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] 6 node cluster with unexplained reboots > > On Mon, Au

RE: [Ocfs2-users] 6 node cluster with unexplained reboots

2007-08-13 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
*** There were no SCSI errors on the console or logs around the time of this reboot. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:ocfs2-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ulf Zimmermann > Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 11:11 > To: Sunil Mushran > Cc: ocfs2-us

RE: [Ocfs2-users] 6 node cluster with unexplained reboots

2007-07-30 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
Too early to call. Management made the call "This hardware seems to have been stable, lets use it". > -Original Message- > From: Sunil Mushran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 11:07 > To: Ulf Zimmermann > Cc: ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com >

RE: [Ocfs2-users] 6 node cluster with unexplained reboots

2007-07-30 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
age- > From: Sunil Mushran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 10:21 > To: Ulf Zimmermann > Cc: ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com > Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] 6 node cluster with unexplained reboots > > Do you have a netconsole setup? If not, set it up. That

[Ocfs2-users] 6 node cluster with unexplained reboots

2007-07-29 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
We just installed a new cluster with 6 HP DL380g5, dual single port Qlogic 24xx HBAs connected via two HP 4/16 Storageworks switches to a 3Par S400. We are using the 3Par recommended config for the Qlogic driver and device-mapper-multipath giving us 4 paths to the SAN. We do see some SCSI error

RE: [Ocfs2-users] Adding new nodes to OCFS2?

2007-07-09 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
C -i -n dbcl1n5 -t node -a number=4 -a ip_address=192.168.201.5 > -a > ip_port= -a cluster=dbcl1 > > on all nodes. It automaticaly updates cluster.conf e add on-the-fly the > nodes. > > Check faq and make sure you understand all command line options. > > Rgds >

[Ocfs2-users] Adding new nodes to OCFS2?

2007-07-07 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
I looked around, found older post which seems not applicable anymore. I have a cluster of 2 nodes right now, which has 3 OCFS2 file systems. All the file systems were formatted with 4 node slots. I added the two news nodes (by hand, by ocfs2console and o2cb_ctl), so my /etc/ofcfs/cluster.conf looks

RE: [Ocfs2-users] Hi

2007-05-07 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:ocfs2-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sunil Mushran > Sent: 05/07/2007 10:47 > To: Alexei_Roudnev > Cc: Ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com > Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] Hi > > None of what you have written allows you to use our resourc

RE: [Ocfs2-users] Some questions about ocfs2

2007-04-25 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
> -Original Message- > From: Sunil Mushran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 04/25/2007 12:16 > To: Ulf Zimmermann > Cc: ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com > Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] Some questions about ocfs2 > > What's the blocksize? Block Size Bits: 12 Cl

RE: [Ocfs2-users] Some questions about ocfs2

2007-04-25 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
> -Original Message- > From: Sunil Mushran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 04/25/2007 10:31 > To: Ulf Zimmermann > Cc: ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com > Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] Some questions about ocfs2 > > # debugfs.ocfs2 -R "stats -h" /dev/sdy2 | g

[Ocfs2-users] Some questions about ocfs2

2007-04-24 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
Is there a way to see how a file system was formatted, i.e. the block size and cluster size? I currently have a 2TB file system, of which about 840GB are in use by around 9 million image files. Average size of these images is 60-100KB. Currently our production servers still have separate file syste