[Linux-cluster] Problem running GFS on top of AoE

[Shailesh]

> Looks like the eth devices have entered into promiscous mode, If 
  you would have a lot of traffic on the ethernet, this could 
  be a cause of the delay. Try cutting down non-AoE traffic.

  
Rgds
Shailesh

On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 15:34 -0800, Lin Shen (lshen) wrote:
> I'm trying to run GFS on top of AoE on my two-node cluster (node A and
> B). I was using GNBD previously. 
> 
> I first exported a partition from A to B using vblade via eth1 (the
> cluster is using eth0 I believe). That seems to work as expected. Then,
> I did a gfs_mkfs on the etherd partition on B, and mounted the file
> system on both A and B. All went as expected. But when I write stuff
> onto the file system on either node, it takes a long time (a few
> minutes) or never for the contents to be propagated to the other node.
> 
> I saw some abnormal messages in the log, but not quite sure what it
> means. This is from node A, and similar messages are also in log from
> node B. Any ideas? How should I trouble shoot this?
> 
> Feb 23 11:46:52 cfs2 kernel: GFS: fsid=gfs:aoe.1: Joined cluster. Now
> mounting FS...
> Feb 23 11:46:52 cfs2 kernel: GFS: fsid=gfs:aoe.1: jid=1: Trying to
> acquire journal lock...
> Feb 23 11:46:52 cfs2 kernel: GFS: fsid=gfs:aoe.1: jid=1: Trying to
> acquire journal lock...
> Feb 23 11:46:52 cfs2 kernel: GFS: fsid=gfs:aoe.1: jid=1: Looking at
> journal...
> Feb 23 11:46:52 cfs2 kernel: GFS: fsid=gfs:aoe.1: jid=1: Looking at
> journal...
> Feb 23 11:46:52 cfs2 kernel: GFS: fsid=gfs:aoe.1: jid=1: Done
> Feb 23 11:46:52 cfs2 kernel: GFS: fsid=gfs:aoe.1: jid=1: Done
> Feb 23 15:02:51 cfs2 kernel: device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
> Feb 23 15:02:51 cfs2 kernel: device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
> Feb 23 15:02:51 cfs2 kernel: device eth1 entered promiscuous mode
> Feb 23 15:02:51 cfs2 kernel: device eth1 entered promiscuous mode
> Feb 23 15:02:51 cfs2 kernel: device lo entered promiscuous mode
> Feb 23 15:02:51 cfs2 kernel: device lo entered promiscuous mode
> 
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