[Lustre-discuss] slow recovery when MDS failed over
Andreas Dilger
adilger at sun.com
Mon Aug 18 20:02:36 PDT 2008
On Aug 07, 2008 12:06 -0400, Brock Palen wrote:
> When the MDS came up on the new server by heartbeat it went into
> recovery as expected. The MDS now has been in recovery for 1.5
> hours. I don't think this is normal.
>
> What would cause this? I know by having a client go down (the reset
> above) while the MDS is down but before recovery will cause recovery
> to time out but 1.5 hours is unacceptable time to wait for the file
> system to come back.
The recovery should time out in about 5 minutes if the clients do not
reply. Something is definitely wrong.
Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.
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