[Gluster-devel] NetBSD regression tests hanging after ./tests/basic/mgmt_v3-locks.t

[Vijay Bellur]

On Tuesday 16 June 2015 02:19 AM, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> Rajesh Joseph <rjoseph at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> Correct me if I am wrong, but I think interruptible is good with hard
>> mount. Which is good in real deployment scenario. Since we are talking
>> about test scripts, I thought soft mount along with timeout period can be
>> a good option to prevent hangs.
>
> soft mount means an I/O operation can timeout and return failure
> interruptible mount means you can kill a process undergoing I/O, which
> is useful for cleanup routine.
>
> Both are like belt with sustenders, but given how likely we are to hang,
> it does not hurts.
>

We again hit this problem [1]. Can we use soft mount with some retries 
and timeouts so that we don't need manual intervention to recover a hung VM?

Thanks,
Vijay

[1] 
http://build.gluster.org/job/rackspace-netbsd7-regression-triggered/6971/console