[Gluster-users] gluster + firefox/sqlite

[Harshavardhana]

A detailed reproducible steps and pointing all this information to
bugzilla is appreciated. Lets takes this discussion back there.

-Harsha

On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Matt Cowan <cowan at bnl.gov> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 6 Jan 2012, Harshavardhana wrote:
>>
>> Users have mounted /home for years now, its nothing new.
>
>
> I was dying to use it for home for it's replication capability, but
> ran into issues with locking and sockets when using nfs clients.
>
>
> I have 2 systems I've been able to do tests on; everything's
> Scientific Linux 6.1:
>
>
>
> client1 (nfs): firefox-3.6.24-3.el6_1.x86_64
>
> homedir serverpair1 (replicate):
> glusterfs-{core,fuse}-3.2.5-2.el6.x86_64 (from gluster.org)
>
>
> client2 (nfs or gluster native):
> same as client1 plus:
> glusterfs-{,fuse}3.2.5-4.el6.x86_64 (from epel-testing)
>
> homedir servercluster2 (distribute):
> glusterfs-{core,fuse}-3.2.4-1.x86_64 (from gluster.org)
>
>
>
> on client1, with nfs homedir on serverpair1, firefox takes *forever* to
> startup.  An strace shows it's hanging up getting various locks
> (sqlite stuff and others).  And when it finally does start, it pops up
> a red banner saying:
>
>   "The bookmarks and history system will not be functional because
>   one of Firefox's files is in use by another application.  Some
>   security software can cause this problem"
>
> Interestingly, this does not happen on client 2 with nfs homedir on
> servercluster2,
> which is running a slightly older version of gluster.
>
>
> And sockets get created as pipes!?! and fail to function.
>
> $ mksock testsock
> $ ls -al testsock
> prwxrwxr-x. 1 glustertest glustertest 0 Jan  6 14:13 testsock
> ^
> This happens in both nfs homedir setups.
>
>
> On client2, with a native gluster homedir from server2, everything
> works fine.  I would go native everywhere, but it would be painful to
> maintain on some legacy systems, I think I read 32bit systems aren't
> really supported(?), and I'd like to avoid all the clients doubling
> their homedir io.
>
> -matt
>
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