[Gluster-users] Problems with Glusterfs and OpenVz

[Alessandro Iurlano]

Hello Amar.

I have reproduced the issue once again and posted the log here:
http://glusterfs.pastebin.com/7WpU8hG5

Let me know if you need more information or want me to test something.

Thanks,
Alessandro

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Amar Tumballi <amar at gluster.com> wrote:
> Hi Alessandro,
> We found that there are some issues with 'gf_log' format in few of the
> corner case logs. They are being reviewed, once they are inside the
> repository, I will let you know. Can you send the log for this crash? so we
> can be sure its fixed when we make next release?
> Regards,
> Amar
>
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Alessandro Iurlano
> <alessandro.iurlano at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello again Amar.
>>
>> I have managed to try the latest commit from
>> git://git.gluster.com/glusterfs
>> The problem happened again though this time it lasted much longer,
>> allowing me to do an apt-get upgrade and some other minor things. But
>> then the container stopped working and I get Transport endpoint is not
>> connected.
>>
>> I am using a mixed environment for the tests. In particular, due to
>> hardware shortage, the gluster and OpenVz server is a 64bit machine
>> and the other gluster server is an old Pentium4 32bit only. Could this
>> mixed 32/64 bit environment be related?
>>
>> Thanks for any help,
>> Alessandro
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Alessandro Iurlano
>> <alessandro.iurlano at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hello Amar.
>> >
>> > I have just tried version 3.1.2qa2 but the problem is still there.
>> > Should I download the git version? If so, could you provide the git
>> > url of the latest version?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Alessandro
>> >
>> > On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Amar Tumballi <amar at gluster.com> wrote:
>> >> Hi Alessandro,
>> >>
>> >>>> This is an extract from an error log http://pastebin.com/66ipxbnA
>> >>
>> >> Thanks for the bug report. We found the reason for the crash reported,
>> >> and
>> >> fixes are already in repository. You can either wait for newer release,
>> >> or
>> >> checkout the latest repository code for the fix.
>> >> Regards,
>> >> Amar
>> >>
>> >> On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Alessandro Iurlano
>> >> <alessandro.iurlano at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> Hello everybody
>> >>>
>> >>> I am evaluating Gluster as storage backend for our virtualization
>> >>> infrastructure but I am having problems using Glusterfs with OpenVZ.
>> >>> What I want to do is to store OpenVZ containers on Glusterfs
>> >>> filesystem and not to mount Glusterfs volumes from inside OpenVZ
>> >>> containers that appears to be what everyone does, according to Google
>> >>> results.
>> >>>
>> >>> Basically I have setup an OpenVZ server (with Proxmox) and a
>> >>> replicated Glusterfs volume from that server and another debian
>> >>> machine.
>> >>> I have been able to create an OpenVZ container on the Glusterfs
>> >>> filesystem without problems with the latest Glusterfs version 3.1.2qa1
>> >>> (due to the mknod bug
>> >>> http://bugs.gluster.com/cgi-bin/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=2145). But
>> >>> whenever I start this new container it lasts only a couple of minutes
>> >>> (just the time to boot and a couple commands) and then Glusterfs hangs
>> >>> and I get the error Transport Endpoint is not connected.
>> >>>
>> >>> The Gluster volume is not accessible anymore from the OpenVz server
>> >>> (even though this server is a gluster server itself), the container
>> >>> completely stops working and killing glusterfs processes does not help
>> >>> to recover the situation. The only way is to reboot the machine.
>> >>>
>> >>> This is an extract from an error log http://pastebin.com/66ipxbnA
>> >>>
>> >>> Any suggestions?
>> >>> Does anybody have any successful experience with OpenVZ and Gluster or
>> >>> know of any howto / documentation?
>> >>>
>> >>> Thanks in advance,
>> >>> Alessandro
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