[Samba] CTDB and locking issues in 4.4.6 (Classic domain)
Alex Crow
acrow at integrafin.co.uk
Thu Nov 3 21:21:46 UTC 2016
On 03/11/16 19:37, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 07:11:12PM +0000, Alex Crow via samba wrote:
>>
>> On 03/11/16 14:28, Ralph Böhme wrote:
>>>> Ah, my smb.conf is missing the "ctdb socket" parameter. According to "man
>>>> smb.conf" this should be set, but I don't remember seeing it on the wiki
>>>> pages.
>>> if it's not set, the default is used which works in many cases, but
>>> not in mine. If the default wasn't working in your setup, you'd
>>> notice, as clients wouldn't be able to talk to ctdb at all.
>>>
>>> -slow
>> I can confirm this made no difference. I see the locking working from
>> windows between the first two servers but *not* the third. This seems to
>> match what I had with smbclient. Again, could it be that an FS that
>> passes ping_pong not be able to work in a CTDB cluster?
>>
>> The developers of my fs (MooseFS) have said that while file flock() is
>> working perfectly there is still no directory flock. Could that be a
>> pointer?
>>
> Does your system have consistent inodes and device ids? Does
>
> stat /some/shared/file
>
> give exactly the same information on all nodes, in particular the
> Device/Inode fields?
>
> Volker
Thanks Volker,
No, it seems it's OK on two servers but not on the third:
[root at zalma ~]# stat testfile
...
Size: 1286700 Blocks: 2514 IO Block: 65536 regular file
Device: 29h/41d Inode: 35820037 Links: 1
Access: (0774/-rwxrwxr--) Uid: ( 3535/ jh3) Gid: ( 513/Domain Users)
Access: 2016-11-03 19:51:46.000000000 +0000
Modify: 2016-11-01 13:06:04.000000000 +0000
Change: 2016-11-01 13:06:04.000000000 +0000
Birth: -
[root at zalma ~]# ssh zearing "stat testfile"
root at zearing's password:
...
Size: 1286700 Blocks: 2514 IO Block: 65536 regular file
Device: 29h/41d Inode: 35820037 Links: 1
Access: (0774/-rwxrwxr--) Uid: ( 3535/ jh3) Gid: ( 513/Domain Users)
Access: 2016-11-03 19:51:46.000000000 +0000
Modify: 2016-11-01 13:06:04.000000000 +0000
Change: 2016-11-01 13:06:04.000000000 +0000
Birth: -
[root at zalma ~]# ssh metropolis "stat testfile"
root at metropolis's password:
...
Size: 1286700 Blocks: 2514 IO Block: 65536 regular file
Device: 26h/38d Inode: 35820037 Links: 1
Access: (0774/-rwxrwxr--) Uid: ( 3535/ jh3) Gid: ( 513/Domain Users)
Access: 2016-11-03 19:51:46.000000000 +0000
Modify: 2016-11-01 13:06:04.000000000 +0000
Change: 2016-11-01 13:06:04.000000000 +0000
Birth: -
NB this is a FUSE mounted FS.
What does the Device: XXh/YYd mean?
Cheers
Alex
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