On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 10:14:54AM +0100, Nicolas Ecarnot wrote:
Hello,
There are a number of bugs [1] reported these days about the issue aourd network config of the hosts, when dealing with interfaces manually configured, with bonding and VLANs. These /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg.* files are wiped by vdsm after rebooting.
I see that there are people at Redhat working on these, and some cases were reproduced in lab conditions - and some were not.
I upgraded 3 DC from 3.4.? to 3.5.1, and faced this issue (lost of every network files) in an non-consistent manner.
I finally thought I coped with this problem by adding net_persistence = ifcfg to /etc/vdsm/vdsm.conf and indeed, when restarting vdsmd and the network, files were conserved.
It was before I observed that some action [2] lead to /etc/vdsm/vdsm.conf being renamed into /etc/vdsm/vdsm.conf.some_timestamp and the original one replaced by a very short file with no netcfg persistence at all.
I didn't identified [2]. That could be : - some actions made by me through the Web UI ? - service vdsmd restart ? - reboots ?
I'm sure that some Redhat people know what could be responsible for renaming /etc/vdsm/vdsm.conf into /etc/vdsm/vdsm.conf.some_timestamp, and I wish they are working closely with Dan Kenigsberg and Michael Burman who helped a lot on these issues (or maybe, THEY are the coders responsible for this ?)
[2] : - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1154399 - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1188251 - and more or less related : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1134346
Thanks for reporting this issue. We are well aware of it, and working hard to fix it. Unfortunately, there were several bugs on the process of upgrading ifcfg-based network configuration to vdsm's own "unified persistence" that sits under /var/lib/vdsm/persistence/netconf. Would you share which platform are you using? el6? el7? ovirt-node, or plain install? There is a recent report that ovirt-node may be restarting networking while vdsm starts up, which may well explain the problem and its inpredictability. Is this the case with you? Regarding /etc/vdsm/vdsm.conf: vdsm never rename it. Could it be rpm's new behavior (replacing vdsm.conf.rpmsave) ? Or could it be the node, Fabian?