Hiyas,
One or two "bugfixes" on my last message. :)
Domingos Parra Novo escreveu:
Markus Schiltknecht escreveu:
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I've already tried with hard/soft mounted NFS, I tried disabling MMAP as
well as Sendfile. None of that helped. The LockFile remains local
on /var/lock... Further googling did not reveal other hints.
In any case, you should always disable Sendfile and MMAP when
serving content from a NFS mounted filesystem. Also, your lockfile
should always point to a local filesystem (/var/lock usually is a good
choice), and the same rule is valid for your scoreboard file (either you
point it to a local file, or you comment the "ScoreBoardFile" keyword,
which will force apache to use a shared memory segment for the scoreboard).
Just as a sidenote, none of my recomendations above will solve your
specific issue. It is just that you must follow them, to certify that
you're not going to find any other NFS related issues on your apache
server (eg, modifying a file, while apache continues to "magically"
deliver the old content, which does not exist anymore).
We are on debian testing, linux kernel 2.6.11-1-k7, apache 2.0.55-4
(prefork) with mod_php 4.4.2-1.1. We are working on the php files, which
might therefore be edited or (re)moved under apache, but normally that
doesn't pose any problems, does it?
Yes, it usually does. You gotta be really careful when modifying
files on an NFS partition, if something else is reading the same data
from it (your apache server, in this case).
There is no real solution for this issue. The basic problem lies in
the fact that you "reuse" the inode, when modifying a file. You can try
one of the following:
- If you're serving just "static" content (html, images and the such),
try to always create new files, with new names. Do not try to reuse
filenames at all, if possible;
- If you're serving dynamic content (and in this case, modifying PHP
scripts), you must somehow modify the way you "publish" your content on
your NFS filesystem. You must always try to use "atomic" operations.
That could be done in the following way:
1 - Lets say you're modifying a file called login.php. First, you
copy it to a new name (which in turn will create a new inode). For
example, ".new.login.php.<pid>.<timestamp>";
2 - Then, you modify the file as usual, but using the new file (the
old file is still valid);
3 - After you finished modifying the new file, you must find a way
to not "invalidate" any inode in the "move" process. This is done in 3
steps:
3.1 - Create a hardlink of the old file to a temporary directory
(temp dir must be on the same NFS partition). Something like that: "ln
-f login.php temp/login.php.<pid>.<timestamp>"
3.2 - Overwrite the old file with the new file, using an atomic
operation. This is done like that: "ln -f
.new.login.php.<pid>.<timestamp> login.php"
Whoops. That would not work. The correct command would be something
like that: "mv -f .new.login.php.<pid>.<timestamp> login.php"
3.3 - After a few minutes (you _must_ wait at least 30 seconds),
remove the temporary file "temp/login.php.<pid>.<timestamp>". It is
safer to use a tool like "tmpwatch" (via cron) to clean files
automatically in the "temp" directory (for example, all files created
after 1 hour).
I know this is not simple to understand, and most important, it is
really hard to implement. Its easier if you have your own system do
publish content, but could be done too if you use samba or ftp to
publish your files (look in the configuration files for those two
daemons, and see if you find a way to create temp files on the upload
process, and then move the temp file into the old one).
Help greatly appreciated.
Regards
Regards,
Markus
Domingos.
Regards,
Domingos.
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