[Lustre-discuss] Lustre + ctdb + samba

Darren George darren.george at sg.patersons.net
Thu Jan 15 22:27:18 PST 2009


    Thanks Tim,

You are correct the /mnt/lustre is the lustre share, and /share/mnt is 
an NFS share where the CTDB_RECOVERY_LOCK file is stored for the 3 ctdb 
services running on 3 clients.

I think that the problem could have something to do with the 
--with-privatedir
I wasn't sure what 'private dir' should point to in a cluster environment.

My ctdb tdb's are located at /usr/local/var/ctdb/
My Samba secret.tdb is located at /etc/samba/ so should the 
--with-privatedir point to /etc/samba ?
And am I correct in using the following when configuring samba 
--with-lockdir=/usr/local/var/ctdb ?

Regards

Darren George
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Tim Wickberg wrote:
> It's a little hard to tell, but I'm assuming that /mnt/lustre is the 
> lustre mount, and /share/mnt is either kept to each machine (but the 
> name seems to imply that it isn't) or is shared storage that all three 
> machines are seeing (but that isn't the lustre pool?).
>
> Either way, I'm guessing that either:
>
> - Your --private-dir isn't very private (and is on shared storage at 
> /share/mnt/ )
> - Or, your CTDB_RECOVERY_LOCK is too private.
>
> The --with-privatedir directory needs to be local to the machine - if 
> all three ctdb's are trying to maintain their local state on a shared 
> FS things would probably not behave normally.
>
> CTDB_RECOVERY_LOCK need to be on shared storage (preferably on the 
> lustre pool) to have the three ctdbd's communicate. (Is ctdbd running 
> on each? Any debug messages from it?)
>
> You may also want to watch out for
>
> https://bugzilla.lustre.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5135
>
> Hope this helps,
> - Tim
>
> Darren George wrote:
>>     Hi,
>>
>> I'm having an issue with file locking whist using lustre+ctdb+samba
>>
>> My Lustre Setup
>> mds/mgs
>> 3 oss
>> 3 Clients each with ctdb and samba services running.
>>
>> All servers and clients running Centos 5 - Kernal 2.6.19-92
>> All servers and clients with Lustre 1.6.6
>> ctdb 3.0
>> Samba 3.2.1
>>
>> CTDB Configuration:
>>
>> ./configure --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --libdir=/usr/lib/ctdb
>>
>> /etc/sysconfig/ctdb
>>
>> CTDB_RECOVERY_LOCK="/share/mnt/recovery"
>> CTDB_PUBLIC_ADDRESSES=/etc/ctdb/public_addresses
>> CTDB_MANAGES_SAMBA=yes
>> CTDB_LOGFILE=/var/log/log.ctdb
>>
>> /etc/ctdb/public_addresses
>>
>> 192.168.3.200/24 eth0
>>
>> /etc/ctdb/nodes
>>
>> 192.168.3.173
>> 192.168.2.3
>> 192.168.1.3
>>
>> SAMBA Configuration
>>
>> ./configure --with-ctdb=/etc/ctdb --with-cluster-support 
>> --enable-pie=no --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin 
>> --libdir=/usr/lib/samba --with-privatedir=/share/mnt/ctdb 
>> --with-lockdir=/usr/local/var/ctdb --with-piddir=/var/run 
>> --with-swatdir=/usr/share/swat  --with-logfilebase=/var/log/samba 
>> --with-configdir=/etc/samba
>>
>> Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf
>> Processing section "[homes]"
>> Processing section "[filepool]"
>> Processing section "[printers]"
>> Loaded services file OK.
>> Server role: ROLE_STANDALONE
>> Press enter to see a dump of your service definitions
>>  
>> [global]
>>         workgroup = MYGROUP
>>         server string = Samba Server Version %v
>>         passdb backend = tdbsam
>>         use mmap = No
>>         clustering = Yes
>>         idmap backend = tdb2
>>         fileid:mapping = fsname
>>         ea support = Yes
>>         cups options = raw
>>  
>> [filepool]
>>         comment = The Shared Area
>>         path = /mnt/lustre
>>         read only = No
>>         create mask = 0777
>>         directory mask = 0777
>>  
>> All lustre clients have been mounted with the '-o flock' option.
>>
>> Everything from a linux prospective is working fine, my linux clients 
>> can read/write to files on the file share and file locking is active.
>>
>>  >From a window share prospective clients can read/write to files on 
>> the file share but file locking is not active.
>>
>> The only errors I can find from samba logs are:
>>
>> [2009/01/11 02:50:25,  3] 
>> locking/locking.c:fetch_share_mode_unlocked(857)
>>   fill_share_mode_lock failed
>> [2009/01/11 02:50:25, 10] smbd/statcache.c:stat_cache_lookup(235)
>>   stat_cache_lookup: lookup failed for name [SG]
>> [2009/01/11 02:50:33,  5] lib/util_sock.c:read_socket_with_timeout(928)
>>   read_socket_with_timeout: blocking read. EOF from client.  
>> [2009/01/11 02:50:33,  3] smbd/process.c:smbd_process(2027)
>>   receive_message_or_smb failed: NT_STATUS_END_OF_FILE, exiting
>> Has anyone dealt with a similar set-up and can assist with the file 
>> locking from a ctdb+samba environment ?
>>
>

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