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From: Jon Scottorn (jscottorn_at_possibilityforge.com)
Date: Thu 23 Jun 2005 - 15:05:53 BST


Sorry, that was at the end of my day. I can today if you guys are
there, or through email, which ever works for me.

Thanks,

Herbert Poetzl wrote:

>On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 03:55:54PM -0600, Jon Scottorn wrote:
>
>
>>I have now upgraded to VS2.0-rc4 and I still have the same result.
>>
>>
>
>okay, looks like you're still? awake, so why not
>join us at #vserver, irc.oftc.net?
>
>best,
>Herbert
>
>
>
>>I go to start the vserver and it stalls. Again these are the processes
>>running
>>
>>pts/0 S+ 0:00 /bin/bash /usr/local/sbin/vserver monitor start
>> 5677 pts/0 S+ 0:00 /usr/local/lib/util-vserver/lockfile
>>/var/lock/vserver.usrlocaletcvserversmonitor.startup
>>5694 pts/0 D+ 0:00 /usr/local/lib/util-vserver/chroot-cat /etc/mtab
>>
>>Here is what is reported in syslog when I start it as well:
>>
>>idr_remove called for id=639838 which is not allocated.
>> [<c01d983f>] sub_remove+0xef/0x100
>> [<c017edbe>] invalidate_list+0x2e/0xe0
>> [<c017eec5>] invalidate_inodes+0x55/0x70
>> [<c01d987f>] idr_remove+0x2f/0xc0
>> [<c016abc6>] kill_anon_super+0x36/0x50
>> [<c016a141>] deactivate_super+0x61/0x80
>> [<c018210c>] sys_umount+0x4c/0xd0
>> [<c016de1b>] sys_stat64+0x1b/0x40
>> [<c01821a5>] sys_oldumount+0x15/0x20
>> [<c0103123>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
>>
>>Any ideas on what I can try next to see if this will work?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Jon
>>
>>Herbert Poetzl wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>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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