From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 26 20: 8:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80F4037BA13 for ; Fri, 26 May 2000 20:08:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id MAA31174; Sat, 27 May 2000 12:37:55 +0930 (CST) Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 12:37:55 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Darren Evans Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: copying from a nfs mounted filesystem onto a vinum volume crashes Message-ID: <20000527123755.B30853@freebie.lemis.com> References: <20000526094609.C13702@freebie.lemis.com> <000301bfc6f2$eab74d90$a99d24d4@vindaloo.profero.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <000301bfc6f2$eab74d90$a99d24d4@vindaloo.profero.com> Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 26 May 2000 at 10:15:21 +0100, Darren Evans wrote: > On Friday, May 26, 2000 1:16 AM, Greg Lehey wrote: >> On Thursday, 25 May 2000 at 12:24:27 +0100, Darren Evans wrote: >>> On Friday, 28 April 2000 at 20:32:44 +0530, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> We need to set up an NFS fileserver which will serve around 10-20 >>>> machines. The hardware would preferably be Intel, for cost >>>> reasons, though fairly high-end (say a Pentium III 550+ MHz, 256 MB >>>> RAM, SCSI disks). The expected exported volume would be perhaps >>>> 50-60 GB. Is it a good idea to export a vinum volume over NFS? >>> >>> Greg Wrote... >>>> NFS doesn't know about the volume, it just knows about the file >>>> system. There's no reason why it shouldn't be on a Vinum volume. >>> >>> what if a remote volume is nfs mounted not on the vinum volume >>> (actually mounted on /mnt) and then a cp -r /mnt/software /raid/software/ >>> is performed. /raid obviously being the vinum raid directory in a 1+0 >>> configuration. This actually crashes our box. I cannot SIGKILL the cp >>> command and have to /sbin/reboot to restore the system. >>> >>> Are there any nfs/vinum issues at present? Or am I being stupid? >> >> You're at least being confusing. Are you saying you /mnt is a >> remotely mounted Vinum volume? Which box crashes? What does the dump >> say? >> >>> I've been reading / writing / deleting a 70 meg archive onto the >>> RAID volume without any problems at all. It's just NFS that causes >>> the headache :-( >> >> Strange. Get me the dump info and I'll take a look. > > sorry about the confusion. > > The box running software RAID aka provided by vinum has runaway > processes. Anything that read's/ writes /raid becomes a runaway > process. I cannot kill it. What do you mean by "runaway process"? Is it using CPU time? Or is it just hanging? What does ps l say? > There's no kernel panic. I've also tried a ktrace on the "runaway" > processes to see if there any system calls. There is no activity. A process looping in the kernel won't show any activity with ktrace. > No, the remote filesystem is not running under a RAID configuration. > > /mnt is not a RAID point, it's a local mount point that i've NFS > mounted a remote filesystem onto. Then tried to copy from there > onto the RAID filesystem. Above you say "This actually crashes our box.". What do you mean by that? Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message