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DRBD , Centos and unmount nfs resources

Posted by on April 20, 2009 1 comment

I have recently built a DRBD + Linux HA NFS cluster , part of the structure was to create a drbd disk resource and mount it on /var/lib/nfs. This allows to switch nfs over to the secondary node without getting “stale nfs handle” errors. Heartbeat was having a hardtime doing a clean umount of the file system and ended up rebooting the machine.

Apr 20 06:47:07 fs Filesystem[9823]: [9887]: INFO: No processes on /var/lib/nfs were signalled
Apr 20 06:47:08 fs Filesystem[9823]: [9890]: ERROR: Couldn’t unmount /var/lib/nfs; trying cleanup with SIGKILL

After some poking around the systems It looked like nfs was not showtdown cleanly. looking into the rc script i changed the signal from 2 to 9

From :

stop)
# Stop daemons.
echo -n $”Shutting down NFS mountd: ”
killproc rpc.mountd
echo
echo -n $”Shutting down NFS daemon: ”
killproc nfsd -2
echo

To :

stop)
# Stop daemons.
echo -n $”Shutting down NFS mountd: ”
killproc rpc.mountd
echo
echo -n $”Shutting down NFS daemon: ”
killproc nfsd -9
echo

and now, all is well :)

Apr 20 06:52:49 fs Filesystem[8696]: [8754]: INFO: unmounted /var/lib/nfs successfully

searching the web shows this is a somewhat known issue

Centos5: nfs clients get premission denied

Posted by on February 18, 2009 No comments

While working on ny NFS cluster project , I could not mount my nfs exports from clients ( FreBSD & Centos ).

on the FreeBSD client I got these responses :
[udp] server:/data/dir1: Permission denied
on the CentOS client I got these responses:
mount: server:/data/dir1 failed, reason given by server: Permission denied

On the Centos NFS server the logs showed :
mountd[12377]: authenticated mount request from client1:984 for /data/dir1 (/data/dir1)

Turns out there’s a bug in CentOS and modprobe does not mount the nfsd procs , you can fix the issue by adding :

none /proc/fs/nfsd nfsd auto 0 0

to /etc/fstab
or manually ( if you want to make sure that is the issue ) :

/bin/mount -t nfsd nfsd /proc/fs/nfsd

Install Dell Openmanage on CentOS 5.2

Posted by on January 24, 2009 No comments

follow this link : Dell OMSA 5.5 Linux repository

Configure Resource on LVS cluster

Posted by on August 14, 2008 No comments

To add an ip resource who’s a member of group “ip_group” create an xml file :












import the resource using :

cibadmin -V -M -o resources -x file.xml

( note you are using -M to modify the existing group … )
delete the resource :

cibadmin -V -D -o resources -X’ ‘

Remove pass-phrase prompt when loading apache-ssl

Posted by on January 16, 2008 No comments

Somehow , I always forget this …

openssl rsa -in server.key -out server.pem

server.pem and server.key MUST be 0600 and owned by root !