[ovirt-users] Can HA Agent control NFS Mount?

[Andrew Lau]

On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 5:10 AM, Bob Doolittle <bob at doolittle.us.com> wrote:
>
> On 05/25/2014 02:51 PM, Joop wrote:
>>
>> On 25-5-2014 19:38, Bob Doolittle wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Also curious is that when I say "poweroff" it actually reboots and comes
>>> up again. Could that be due to the timeouts on the way down?
>>>
>> Ah, that's something my F19 host does too. Some more info: if engine
>> hasn't been started on the host then I can shutdown it and it will poweroff.
>> IF engine has been run on it then it will reboot.
>> Its not vdsm (I think) because my shutdown sequence is (on my f19 host):
>>  service ovirt-agent-ha stop
>>  service ovirt-agent-broker stop
>>  service vdsmd stop
>>  ssh root at engine01 "init 0"
>> init 0
>>
>> I don't use maintenance mode because when I poweron my host (= my desktop)
>> I want engine to power on automatically which it does most of the time
>> within 10 min.
>
>
> For comparison, I see this issue and I *do* use maintenance mode (because
> presumably that's the 'blessed' way to shut things down and I'm scared to
> mess this complex system up by straying off the beaten path ;). My process
> is:
>
> ssh root at engine "init 0"
> (wait for "vdsClient -s 0 list | grep Status:" to show the vm as down)
> hosted-engine --set-maintenance --mode=global
> poweroff
>
> And then on startup:
> hosted-engine --set-maintenance --mode=none
> hosted-engine --vm-start
>
> There are two issues here. I am not sure if they are related or not.
> 1. The NFS timeout during shutdown (Joop do you see this also? Or just #2?)
> 2. The system reboot instead of poweroff (which messes up remote machine
> management)
>

For 1. I was wondering if perhaps, we could have an option to specify
the mount options. If I understand correctly, applying a soft mount
instead of a hard mount would prevent this from happening. I'm however
not sure of the implications this would have on the data integrity..

I would really like to see it happen in the ha-agent, as it's the one
which connects/mounts the storage it should also unmount it on boot.
However the stability on it, is flaky at best. I've noticed if `df`
hangs because of another NFS mount having timed-out the agent will
die. That's not a good sign.. this was what actually caused my
hosted-engine to run twice in one case.

> Thanks,
>      Bob
>
>
>> I think wdmd or sanlock are causing the reboot instead of poweroff
>>
>> Joop
>>
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