[Ocfs2-users] OCFS processes active after a umount [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]
Sunil Mushran
SUNIL.MUSHRAN at ORACLE.COM
Tue Jul 22 19:12:31 PDT 2008
Did you monitor /proc/mounts as I had suggested.
-----Original Message-----
>From Mark Schloss <Mark.Schloss at austrac.gov.au>
Sent Mon 7/21/2008 9:22 PM
To Sunil Mushran <Sunil.Mushran at oracle.com>
Cc ocfs2-users at oss.oracle.com
Subject Re: [Ocfs2-users] OCFS processes active after a umount [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]
Hello Sunil,
Thanks for the reply. The version is 1.2.9-1 and kernel is
2.6.18-92.1.1.el5.
We have managed to reproduce the problem and it appears to be related to
multipathing. We recently moved to multipathing the OCFS volumes. On the
weekend we tested removing one path to the OCFS volumes and all was OK.
When the path was restored the box still showed it as being unavailable.
We found this to be caused by the multipath daemon not running as it had
not been set to start automatically. After the daemon was started both
paths to the OCFS volumes were shown as available, however, when trying
to umount and offline OCFS we see the behaviour outlined originally.
This is reproducible as follows -
1. Start with both paths to the OCFS volumes available
2. Shutdown the multipath daemon
3. Remove one path by disconnecting a cable to the switch
4. Restore the path by reconnecting cable
5. Start multipath daemon
6. Check both paths are available
7. Umount the OCFS file system (this returns immediately without the
usual few second delay)
8. Offline OCFS - error is received
Under normal circumstances, i.e.: when the multipath daemon is
continuously available, losing a path, restoring a path, umount and
offline all work as expected.
Regards
Mark
Mark Schloss | Oracle DBA | Information Technology | x0013
-----Original Message-----
From: Sunil Mushran [mailto:Sunil.Mushran at oracle.com]
Sent: Tuesday, 22 July 2008 3:43 AM
To: Mark Schloss
Cc: ocfs2-users at oss.oracle.com
Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] OCFS processes active after a umount
[SEC=UNOFFICIAL]
That is strange.
Next time double check the mounts with:
$ cat /proc/mounts
The mount command prints the entries in /etc/mtab while
the /proc/mounts dumps the information from the kernel.
If those threads are there, it means the volume is still
mounted. Two in this case.
The entries in mtab are added by mount.ocfs2 and removed
by umount. There is a chance that mount.ocfs2 was unable
to add the entries in that file. Or, maybe one used the
-n option to force that behavior.
Which version/kernel is this?
Sunil
Mark Schloss wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have two OCFS file file systems mounted at /ocfs_1 and /ocfs_2. I
> have unmounted both OCFS file systems and was trying to then offline
> and unload OCFS. The offline command failed with -
>
> # ./o2cb offline
> Stopping O2CB cluster ocfs2: Failed
> Unable to stop cluster as heartbeat region still active
> Looking at the processes on this box shows a number of OCFS processes
> are still active -
>
> ps -ef |grep ocf
> root 4704 23 0 Jul19 ? 00:00:00 [ocfs2_wq]
> root 4705 23 0 Jul19 ? 00:00:00 [ocfs2vote-0]
> root 4710 23 0 Jul19 ? 00:00:00 [ocfs2cmt-0]
> root 4730 23 0 Jul19 ? 00:00:00 [ocfs2vote-1]
> root 4735 23 0 Jul19 ? 00:00:00 [ocfs2cmt-1]
> root 10214 3485 0 18:12 pts/2 00:00:00 grep ocf
>
> According to the FAQ, the ocfs2vote and ocfs2cmt processes should have
> gone at the umount.
>
> Mount shows that there no OCFS file systems mounted -
>
> # mount |grep -i ocfs
> ocfs2_dlmfs on /dlm type ocfs2_dlmfs (rw)
>
> What can I do to offline/unload OCFS? (offline force fails with the
> same message as above)
>
> Regards
>
> Mark Schloss
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