Re: [OSR-devel] GlusterFS and mdadm mods

[Marc G. <gr...@at...>]

Gordan,
hardware-lib.sh -> upstream
clusterfs-lib.sh ;-) 
+
+  
#############################################################################
+  # GlusterFS settle time bug bodge!
+  sleep 5
+  ls -la ${mountpoint} > /dev/null
+  ls -la ${mountpoint}/${prefix} > /dev/null
+  
#############################################################################
+

I simply cannot do this.
I could add a sleep with a timeout defaults 0 but which can be overwritten as 
bootparameter.
But do you really need those ls?
Marc.

On Wednesday 08 July 2009 23:17:24 Gordan Bobic wrote:
> 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



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Marc Grimme
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