[Linux-cluster] GFS Node Limit?

[Adam Manthei]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 11:35:40AM +0200, Richard Mayhew wrote:
> Hi
> Brilliant!
> 
> All sorted now...I had no idea about this bug. Is it documented anywhere
> noticeable?

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=127828

I would have posted the bugzilla number last night, but was just to lazy to
do the search ;)

> I had all my service servers named services-01, services-02. Renamed
> them to serv-01 ... And it worked!
> Thanks for all your help!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adam Manthei [mailto:amanthei at redhat.com] 
> Sent: 19 August 2004 01:29 AM
> To: Discussion of clustering software components including GFS
> Subject: Re: [Linux-cluster] GFS Node Limit?
> 
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 11:06:28PM +0200, Richard Mayhew wrote:
> >  
> > I have increased the number of journals on each FS from the 8 
> > previously discussed to 16. At present the max number of servers that 
> > I intend on using will be 10, leaving 6 journals open for expansion. 
> > When trying to mount the 6th server, I end up with the same problem. 
> > The mount hangs until I remove a mount from another system before the 
> > 6th system is able to complete the GFS mount.
> > 
> > After adding on full verbosity on the gulm lock server I still can't 
> > see anything of interest. Dmesg offers no clue either. The only 
> > message I'm seeing is the following : "GFS Kernel Interface" is logged
> out. fd:10"
> > etc.
> > 
> > After searching the net, the only advice I can find is to increase the
> 
> > number of journals to at least the number of nodes. This I have done 
> > with no success....
> > 
> > Any other ideas?
> 
> Gulm can only use 5 nodes in the servers list in
> cluster.ccs/cluster/lock_gulmd/servers.  This could be why you are
> having difficulties.  Try trimming the list and see if that yields
> better results.
> 
> You may also want to make sure that your node names are uniquely
> identifiable by their first 8 characters (this was a bug in version
> 6.0.0-1.2 of the RPMs, but since you didn't post the version of the code
> you are using, I can only offer this as a suggestion ;)
> 
> There would be failure messages to the console stating that you didn't
> have enough journals if that was the problem.  
> 
> good luck
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