[Ocfs2-devel] ocfs2: disk timeout, autoumount the volume to avoid host reboot

[Guozhonghua]

Hi, Guanghui,

That will be an good new feature to OCFS2.

There is one scenarios that one host have several LUNs connected with different storage servers, may be iSCSI, and FC SAN.
One of the volumes(LUNs) disconnected from server, the host will be fence and restart itself for heartbeat timeout.
Same time, the services running depend on the other good volumes(LUNs) will be interrupted and cannot be accessed continuously for the host, which is been restarted.

If OCFS2 had this feature, the services depending on other good status volumes(LUNs) will be running continue, and the host will not be fence, and not restart itself.
Only this services which depend on the abnormal volume(LUN) run timeout.

I think it is a good idea and feature for OCFS2.

Thank you.
Guozhonghua



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Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 07:27:48 +0000
From: Zhangguanghui <zhang.guanghui at h3c.com>
Subject: [Ocfs2-devel] ocfs2: disk timeout, autoumount the volume to
        avoid calling emergency_restart
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Hi everyone


In ocfs2, when one storage volume can't access, all nodes which have mounted the volume will fence self

due to write timeout or io error. So I make a useful attempt to add autoumount option.

in the case, I know that for some reason umount may be hung.Based on the analysis process of ocfs2 umount,

it's possible to complete all locks and wake up block events before umounting the volume.

the way is to work well by forever experimenting and devising tests.the patch may be release in the recent times.

Is the patch risky and reasonable? what do you think ? Thanks

Best regards
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