[Lustre-devel] lustre 1.8+ issues with automounter

[Alexey Lyashkov]

On Mar 4, 2011, at 09:39, Andreas Dilger wrote:

> On 2011-03-03, at 9:48 PM, Jeremy Filizetti wrote:
>> Ever since we moved from Lustre 1.6.6 to 1.8 I've seen issues with using
>> the automounter and Lustre.  I've finally got around to looking at what
>> the issue is, but I'm not quite sure what the correct way to resolve it
>> is.  I think the issue will remain in 2.0+ but I didn't look closely at
>> the code.
> 
> Interesting.  I've known about automount problems with Lustre for some time (probably a search in the list history would find a bunch), but nobody has every dug into the root cause.  Thanks for taking the time to investigate.
> 
Looks it is result of rq_no_resend flag for glimpse request, so it will failed (instead of put to delay list) and that error returned to caller.



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Alexey Lyashkov
alexey.lyashkov at clusterstor.com




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