[Ocfs2-users] CRS/CSS and OCFS2

[Sunil Mushran]

In such a situation, ocfs2 fences the higher node number. afaik,
css does the same. What are the css node numbers for the two nodes?

alexandra.strauss at bayerbbs.com wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I refer to you hoping you may help me with my problem... We have got 
> an issur here and opened a SR at Metalink but until now, we got no 
> useful information in solving our problem. SR-Number is 6855815.994...
>
> We wanted to protect 9i Single-Instance Databases with 10g Clusterware 
> following the third-party-tool approach. There are no RAC-databases 
> involved. But we want to achieve high availability as the databases 
> are business critical systems. We want to make the systems able to
> relocate to another machine in case of failure to keep downtimes 
> low... To achieve this we want to use OCFS2 for the filesystem. 
> Relocate is done by script with help of CRS.
>
> So we took two systems (byaz05 and byaz10) and installed the following 
> software: 10g CRS (10.2.0.3) and Oracle Software 9.2.0.8 and OCFS2 1.2.8
>
> We found the following Metalinknotes and adjusted the heartbeat and 
> timeouts for OCFS2: Metalink Note 395878.1: Heartbeat/Voting/Quorum 
> Related Timeout Configuration for Linux, OCFS2, RAC Stack to avoid 
> unnessary node fencing, panic and reboot
> Metalink Note 391771.1: OCFS2 - FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (hier 
> insbesondere der Abschnitt zu Fencing und Quorum)
> Metalink Note 434255.1: Common reasons for OCFS2 Kernel Panic or 
> Reboot Issues
> Metalink Note 457423.1: OCFS2 Fencing, Network, and Disk Heartbeat 
> Timeout Configuration
>
> We did no changes to the CRS/CSS default settings until now.
>
> During HA-testing we watched unexpected behaviour of the system. We 
> deactivated the bond for private interconnect and expected only one 
> node to go down. But we faced both nodes going down. As it seems to me 
> one node was rebooted from OCFS2 and the other one from CRS/CSS.
>
> Timestamp
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>
> 10:21:06 bond1 disabled (eth1)
> */var/log/messages byaz05*
> Apr 25 10:21:06 byaz05 kernel: bonding: bond1: link status definitely 
> down for interface eth1, disabling it
> Apr 25 10:21:06 byaz05 kernel: bonding: bond1: making interface eth5 
> the new active one.
>
> 10:21:09 bond1 disabled (eth5)
> */var/log/messages byaz05*
> Apr 25 10:21:09 byaz05 kernel: bonding: bond1: link status definitely 
> down for interface eth5, disabling it
> Apr 25 10:21:09 byaz05 kernel: bonding: bond1: now running without any 
> active interface !
>
> 10:21:23 o2net – no longer connected
> */var/log/messages byaz05*
> Apr 25 10:21:23 byaz05 kernel: o2net: no longer connected to node 
> byaz10.bayer-ag.com (num 1) at 10.190.59.6:7777
> */var/log/messages byaz10*
> Apr 25 10:21:23 byaz10 kernel: o2net: no longer connected to node 
> byaz05.bayer-ag.com (num 0) at 10.190.59.5:7777
>
> 10:21:27 CSSD failure 134
> 10:21:29 Reboot initiated by CRS
> */var/log/messages byaz05*
> Apr 25 10:21:27 byaz05 logger: Oracle clsomon failed with fatal status 
> 12.
> Apr 25 10:21:27 byaz05 logger: Oracle CSSD failure 134.
> Apr 25 10:21:27 byaz05 su(pam_unix)[25839]: session closed for user 
> oracle
> Apr 25 10:21:27 byaz05 logger: Oracle CRS failure. Rebooting for 
> cluster integrity.
> Apr 25 10:21:27 byaz05 kernel: md: stopping all md devices.
> Apr 25 10:21:27 byaz05 kernel: md: md0 switched to read-only mode.
> Apr 25 10:21:29 byaz05 logger: Oracle CRS failure. Rebooting for 
> cluster integrity.
> Apr 25 10:21:29 byaz05 kernel: e1000: eth2: e1000_watchdog_task: NIC 
> Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex
> Apr 25 10:21:29 byaz05 logger: Oracle init script ceding reboot to 
> sibling 27383.
>
> 10:21:58 Reboot initiated by OCFS2(?)
> */var/log/messages byaz10*
> Apr 25 10:21:58 byaz10 su(pam_unix)[4595]: session opened for user 
> oracle by (uid=0)
> Apr 25 10:21:58 byaz10 su(pam_unix)[4595]: session closed for user oracle
> Apr 25 10:25:58 byaz10 syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
> Apr 25 10:25:58 byaz10 syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
> Apr 25 10:25:58 byaz10 kernel: klogd 1.4.1, log source = /proc/kmsg 
> started.
> Apr 25 10:25:58 byaz10 kernel: Bootdata ok (command line is ro 
> root=/dev/vgroot/_)
>
>
> We supposed all the time this is a timing problem. But we don't know 
> which settings raise the problem and which steps to do to to correct 
> them. Otherwise we'll have to work over the complete concept for the 
> business critical systems.
> Can anyone help me?
>

> Regards,
> Alexandra
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