Re: [SSI-devel] Failover error

[Andreas R. <ro...@co...>]

David B. Zafman wrote:

> Andreas wrote:
>
>> Hello
>>
>> Can you tell me what the following error while failover means?
>>
>> EXT3-fs: the errors option needs an argument
>> cfs_root_failover: error -22
>>
>> #
>> Andreas
>
>
> An EINVAL is being generated by ext3 because a mount option "errors" 
> needs an argument (i.e. errors=XXXX).  I don't know what that ext3 
> option is does.  CFS is supposed to send the original mount options to 
> all nodes, so they can be provide upon failover remount.  I've never 
> seen this error during my failover testing.  I don't know if you have 
> special options added in your fstab for the root filesystem, but we 
> might have a bug in which they are getting corrupted on the take-over 
> node.  Can you send me your /etc/fstab file?
>
Hello

At the moment I am using local drives to test the failover. I have 
cloned the root fs to the second node with dd and netcat in order to 
have the same inodes. After that I tried the failover by disconnection 
the network cable.  It does not matter which node has booted his root. 
If the connection is broken the initnode that tries to do an failover 
give that message. I am using LABEL=ROOT in fstab (The label is correct 
and the mount LABEL=ROOT /test does work an both nodes) because the UUID 
is not the same. Maybe that must be? In fstab errors=remount-ro is used. 
But there is no problem with that. Do you think I should remove that?

Andreas