Re: [OSR-devel] GlusterFS and mdadm mods

[Gordan B. <go...@bo...>]

Ooops, forgot to actually attach the added files. *headdesk*
Here they are.

Gordan Bobic wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Attached are:
> 
> My latest clusterfs-lib.sh that includes a temporary bodge for a problem 
> with glusterfs that makes operations on the FS fail for a few seconds 
> after mounting because fuse takes a little while to settle. So the bodge 
> is to include "sleep 5; ls -la <mount-point>" to make sure that the real 
>  root is ready by the time we mount cdsl.local. It's a patched version 
> of the latest package that was preview (I haven't seen any updates to 
> preview in at least a few weeks).
> 
> Also attached is hardware-lib.sh that has a different approach to mdadm 
> stuff (this is, AFAIK, only really useful for gluster at the moment). 
> Instead of:
> 
> if [ -f /etc/mdadm.conf ]
> 
> it checks for
> 
> if [ -x /sbin/mdadm ]
> 
> because I've been having problems with mdadm.conf contents - it looks 
> like despite them being cdsl-ed out to cdsl.local, the node that builds 
> the initrd hard-puts it's own mdadm.conf into the initrd.
> Anyway, instead of looking for a pre-existing mdadm.conf, the patch 
> makes a new one:
> 
> mdadm --examine --scan > /etc/mdadm.conf
> 
> This file should now be removed from the package:
> /etc/comoonics/bootimage/files.initrd.d/mdadm.list
> (or at least be empty), since it only contained /etc/mdadm.conf
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Gordan
>