Hmm, here is an example. Re: [Ocfs2-users] Also just a comment
to theOracle guys
Andy Phillips
andrew.phillips at betfair.com
Mon Feb 12 04:15:40 PST 2007
As a thought, borrowing from solaris,
How about a mount option?
The following text is from the mount_ufs manpage. That probably
belongs to someone, but I took this from a random web page.
onerror = action This option specifies the action that UFS
should take to recover from an internal inconsistency on a file
system. Specify action as panic, lock, or umount. These
values cause a forced system shutdown, a file system lock to be
applied to the file system, or the file system to be forcibly
unmounted, respectively. The default is panic.
That preserves existing behaviour, but allows people running rac and
ocfs2 to avoid multiple hits if rac and ocfs2 reboot different nodes.
Andy
On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 08:44 -0800, Luis Freitas wrote:
> Alexei,
>
> I think you got a point too, maybe OCFS2 could behave like
> Netapp, and simply hang when there is a problem and leave the fencing
> for CRS or whathever other clusterware is in use.
>
> Anyone from Oracle got a opinion on this?
>
> Regards,
> Luis
>
> Alexei_Roudnev <Alexei_Roudnev at exigengroup.com> wrote:
> Absolutely. I know how redo and RAC interacts, you are
> absolutely correct.
>
> Sometimes CSSD reboots one node and that's all - good luck.
> Sometimes OCFS reboots one node and CSSD reboots another node
> - bad luck. That's why it is important do not mix different
> cluster managers on the same servers, or at least allow them
> to interact and make similar decision _who is master today_
> (so who will survive split-brain situation).
>
> RAC is little simple case because Oracle is usually primary
> service - so if it decide to reboot, it's reasonable decision.
> OCFSv2 is another story - sometimes
> it is _secondary_ service (for example, it is used for the
> backups only), and if it is secondary then it should better
> stop working then reboot.
>
> It reveals 2 big problems (both, Oracle and OCFSv2, are
> affected):
> - single interface heartbeat is not reliable. You CAN NOT
> build reliable cluster using single heartbeat channel.
> Classical clusters (Veritas VCS)
> uses 2 - 4 different heartbeat media (we use 2 independent
> Ethernet HUBS and 2 generic Ethernet LAN-s in Veritas, use 2
> Ethernets + 1 Serial in Linux clusters,
> use 2 Ethernet + 1 Serial in Cisco PIX cluster, and so on).
> Both OCFS and Oracle RAC can not use more then one (to be
> correct, you can configure few interfaces
> for RAC interconnection in SPFile, but it wil not affect
> CSSD). In addition, OCFS defaults are very strange and
> unrealistic - Ethernet and FC can not guarantee heartbeat
> times better than 1 minute, in average (I mean - it case of
> any network reconfiguration heartbeat wil experience 30 - 50
> seconds delay, so if you configure 12 seconds timeout /default
> in OCFSv2/ you are at least naive.
>
> - too easy _self fencing_. Just again, if OCFS node lost
> connection to the disk, it should not self fence - it can send
> data to another nodes (or request them from
> another nodes), it can unmount file system and try to remount
> it, it can release control and resume operations. Immediate
> fencing is necessary in SOME cases
> but not in all. If FS have not pending operations, then
> Fencing by reboot don't make much difference with just
> _remount_. It's not so simple as I explain here,
> but the truth is that fencing decisions are not flexible
> enough and decrease reliability dramatically (I posted a list
> of scenarios when fencing should not happen).
>
> IN addition, I noticed other problems with OCFSv2 too (such as
> excessive CPU usage in some cases).
>
> I use OCFSv2, even in production. But I do it with a grain of
> salt, have a backup plan _how to run without it_, and don't
> use it for heavily loaded
> file systems with million files (I use heartbeat, reiserfs and
> APC switch fencing - and 3 independent heartbeats, with 40
> seconds timeout). For now, I had one glitch on OCFSv2 (when it
> remounted read only on one node) and that's all - no other
> problems in production (OCFSv2 is used during start/stops
> only, so it is safe). But I run stress tests in the lab, I am
> running it in the lab clusters now (including RAC), and
> conclusion is simple - as a cluster, it is not reliable; as a
> file system, it may have hidden bugs so be extra careful with
> it.
>
> PS. Good point - it improves every month. Some problems are in
> the past already.
>
> PPS. All this lab reboots have been caused by extremely heavy
> load or by hardware failures (simulated or real). It works
> better in real life. But my experience says me, that if I can
> break something in the lab in 3 days, it's a matter of few
> month, when it broke in production.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Luis Freitas
> To: Ocfs2-users at oss.oracle.com
> Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2007 4:52 PM
> Subject: Re: Hmm,here is an example. Re: [Ocfs2-users]
> Also just a comment to theOracle guys
>
>
> Alexei,
>
> Actually your log seems to show that CSSD (Oracle
> CRS) rebooted the node before OCFS2 got a chance to do
> it.
>
> On a RAC cluster, if the interconnect is
> interrupted, all the nodes hang until a split brain
> resolution is complete and the recovery of all the
> crashed nodes is completed. This is needed because
> every read on a Oracle datablock needs a ping to the
> other nodes.
>
> The view of the data must be consistent, when one
> node read a particular data block, the Oracle
> Database first ping the other nodes to ensure that
> they did not modify the block and still have not
> flushed it to disk. Another node may even forward a
> reply with the block, preventing the disk access
> (Cache Fusion).
>
> When a split brain occurs, there is the loss of
> these blocks not flushed to disk, and they are rebuilt
> using the redo threads of the particular nodes that
> crashed. During this interval all the database
> instances "freeze", since before the node recovery is
> complete there is no way to guarantee that a
> block read from disk has not been altered on the
> crashed node.
>
> So the fencing is needed even if there is no disk
> activity, as the entire cluster becomes "hang" the
> moment the interconnect is down. And the timeout for
> the fencing must be as small as possible to prevent a
> long cluster reconfiguration delay. Of course the
> timeout must be tuned so as to be larger than ethernet
> switch failovers, or storage controller or disk
> multipath failovers. Or if possible the failover times
> should be reduced.
>
> Now, on the other hand, I am too having problems
> with OCFS2. It seems much less robust than ASM and the
> previous version, OCFS, specially under heavy disk
> activity. But I do expect these problems to get solved
> in the near future, as did the 2.4 kernel VM problems.
>
> Regards,
> Luis
>
> Alexei_Roudnev <Alexei_Roudnev at exigengroup.com> wrote:
> Additional info - node had not ANY active
> OCFSv2 operations (OCFSv2 used for backups
> only and from another node only). So, if
> system just SUSPEND all FS operations and try
> to rejoin to the cluster, it all could work
> (moreover, connection to the disk system was
> intact, so it could close file sytem
> gracefully).
>
> It reveals 3 problems at once:
> - single heartbeat link (instead of multiple
> links)
> - timeout too short (ethernet can't guarantee
> 10 seconds, it can guarantee 1 minute
> minimum);
> - fencing even if system is passive and can
> remount / reconnect instead of rebooting.
>
> All we did in the lab was _disconnect 1 of
> trunks between switches for a few seconds,
> then insert it back into the socket_. No one
> other application failed
> (including heartbeat clusters). Database
> cluster was not doing anything on OCFS in time
> of failure (even backups).
>
> I will try heartbeat between loopback
> interfaces (and OCFS protocol) next time (I am
> just curios if it can provide 10 seconds for
> network reconfiguration).
>
> ...
> Feb 1 12:19:13 testrac12 kernel: o2net:
> connection to node testrac11 (num 0) at
> 10.254.32.111:7777 has been idle for 10
> seconds, shutting it down.
> Feb 1 12:19:13 testrac12 kernel:
> (13,3):o2net_idle_timer:1310 here are some
> times that might help debug the situation:
> (tmr 1170361135.521061 now 1170361145.520476
> dr 1170361141.852795 adv
> 1170361135.521063:1170361135.521064 func
> (c4378452:505)
> 1170361067.762941:1170361067.762967)
> Feb 1 12:19:13 testrac12 kernel: o2net: no
> longer connected to node testrac11 (num 0) at
> 10.254.32.111:7777
> Feb 1 12:19:13 testrac12 kernel:
> (1855,3):dlm_send_remote_convert_request:398
> ERROR: status = -107
> Feb 1 12:19:13 testrac12 kernel:
> (1855,3):dlm_wait_for_node_death:371
> 5AECFF0BBCF74F069A3B8FF79F09FB5A: waiting
> 5000ms for notification of death of node 0
> Feb 1 12:19:13 testrac12 kernel:
> (1855,1):dlm_send_remote_convert_request:398
> ERROR: status = -107
> Feb 1 12:19:13 testrac12 kernel:
> (1855,1):dlm_wait_for_node_death:371
> 5AECFF0BBCF74F069A3B8FF79F09FB5A: waiting
> 5000ms for notification of death of node 0
> Feb 1 12:22:22 testrac12 kernel:
> (1855,2):dlm_send_remote_convert_request:398
> ERROR: status = -107
> Feb 1 12:22:22 testrac12 kernel:
> (1855,2):dlm_wait_for_node_death:371
> 5AECFF0BBCF74F069A3B8FF79F09FB5A: waiting
> 5000ms for notification of death of node 0
> Feb 1 12:22:27 testrac12 kernel:
> (13,3):o2quo_make_decision:144 ERROR: fencing
> this node because it is connected to a
> half-quorum of 1 out of 2 nodes which doesn't
> include the lowest active node 0
> Feb 1 12:22:27 testrac12 kernel:
> (13,3):o2hb_stop_all_regions:1889 ERROR:
> stopping heartbeat on all active regions.
> Feb 1 12:22:27 testrac12 kernel: Kernel
> panic: ocfs2 is very sorry to be fencing this
> system by panicing
> Feb 1 12:22:27 testrac12 kernel:
> Feb 1 12:22:28 testrac12 su: pam_unix2:
> session finished for user oracle, service su
> Feb 1 12:22:29 testrac12 logger: Oracle CSSD
> failure. Rebooting for cluster integrity.
> Feb 1 12:22:32 testrac12 su: pam_unix2:
> session finished for user oracle, service su
> ...
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