[Linux-cluster] Starter Cluster / GFS

Steven Whitehouse swhiteho at redhat.com
Mon Nov 22 11:04:41 UTC 2010


Hi,

On Sat, 2010-11-20 at 11:15 +0000, Gordan Bobic wrote:
> On 11/19/2010 05:46 PM, Nicolas Ross wrote:
> >> Back when I tried using it, it was reproducible by having > 1 dovecot
> >> IMAP
> >> client running in the cluster with maildirs stored on GFS2. Accessing
> >> mailboxes with only 2-3 users used to reliably deadlock it in under 10
> >> seconds. The only cure was a full cluster reboot. IIRC I was told at the
> >> time here that the bug was one of the known ones, so I never bothered
> >> investigating further.
> >
> > Ok, I see, in your case, users were connecting to a single node or many ?
> 
> Many.
> 
> > Is there a bug report for this with someting I can reproduce without
> > having to install a full IMAP server ?
> 
> As I said, I never bothered filing a bug report or developing a more 
> specific test case because it was mentioned that a similar bug is 
> already known.
> 
> Gordan
> 
If it was known at the time, it is probably long since fixed. I don't
know of any outstanding issues similar to this at the moment,

Steve.





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