[Lustre-discuss] ldlm_cli_cancel_* , 1.6.5.1

[Andreas Dilger]

On Aug 21, 2008  08:50 +0200, Heiko Schroeter wrote:
> We get the following messages just before the client is unmounted. It is 
> reproducable and happens every unmount.
> 
> Is this just normal lustre behaviour before unmounting a client ? So nothing 
> to worry about ?
> 
> <snip>
> Aug 18 09:13:48 quadcore12 LustreError: 32585:0:
> (ldlm_request.c:986:ldlm_cli_cancel_req()) Got rc -108 from cancel RPC: 
> canceling anyway

Yes, this is a known harmless problem.  The client is disconnected from
the MGS before it has dropped the configuration lock.  This is not a
problem and it was decided that it wasn't a blocker for the 1.6.5 release.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.