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From: Herbert Poetzl (herbert_at_13thfloor.at)
Date: Wed 22 Jun 2005 - 18:42:22 BST


On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 07:53:25AM -0600, Jon Scottorn wrote:
> I will do some testing and yes we would really like it to work. Lustre
> is an awesome cluster filesystem that combined with the vserver software
> would have cool functionality. basically we cluster the vservers
> directory between a high end data server and have multiple front ends so
> that if any of the systems crash we can bring the vservers on that front
> end up within a couple of minutes of being down.

sounds good, we are interested too :)

> I will try 2.6.12, but where do I get vs2-rc4? and will it possibily
> work with 2.6.11.11 kernel?

yep,

http://vserver.13thfloor.at/Experimental/patch-2.6.11.11-vs2.0-rc4.diff.bz2
http://www.13thfloor.at/~doener/vserver/patches/patch-2.6.12-vs2.0-rc4.diff

best,
Herbert

> Thanks,
>
> Jon
>
> Herbert Poetzl wrote:
>
> >On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 04:53:50PM -0600, Jon Scottorn wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Hello,
> >>
> >> I am wondering if the Vserver software works on a Lustre Cluster file
> >>system. I have setup everything running linux 2.6.11.11 with Vserver
> >>1.9.5 and latest utils and when I go to start the vserver it stalls with
> >>no errors, but it never starts. Here are the processes that are running
> >>at the time:
> >>
> >>4287 pts/0 S+ 0:00 /bin/bash /usr/local/sbin/vserver awstats start
> >> 4297 pts/0 S+ 0:00 /usr/local/lib/util-vserver/lockfile
> >>/var/lock/vserver.usrlocaletcvserversawstats.startup
> >> 4314 pts/0 D+ 0:00 /usr/local/lib/util-vserver/chroot-cat /etc/mtab
> >>
> >>To fix it I have to kill these processes and then vserver gives this error:
> >>
> >>/usr/local/lib/util-vserver/vserver.functions: line 653: 4297
> >>Terminated $_LOCKFILE "$1" $tmp $2 (wd: /vservers)
> >>
> >>
> >>Failed to start vserver 'awstats'
> >>Terminated
> >>
> >>Any ideas?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >first, try with 2.6.12 and vs2.0-rc4+ (tools 0.30.207),
> >then make some 'basic' tests with the Lustre FS regarding
> >namespaces, it might be, that it doesn't like them ...
> >
> >you can for example create/configure a guest to use chroot
> >and avoid the namespaces ...
> >
> >it is also possible that the networking? part of Lustre
> >is not able to bypass the chbind security ...
> >
> >anyway, if you know lustre details and/or are interested
> >in making this work, then we can investigate/fix it ...
> >but it will require some work (mainly testing/setup) on
> >your side (AFAIK it wasn't tested with lustre yet) ...
> >
> >best,
> >Herbert
> >
> >
> >
> >>Thanks in advance.
> >>
> >>Jon S
> >>
> >>
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