Bug 195502

Summary:	Regression: cluster mirror creation cmd hangs even though mirror gets created
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Corey Marthaler <cmarthal>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Jonathan Earl Brassow <jbrassow>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Cluster QE <mspqa-list>
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Priority:	high
Version:	4.0	CC:	agk, mbroz
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Fixed In Version:	RHSA-2006-0575	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Bug Blocks:	180185, 181409

Description Corey Marthaler 2006-06-15 15:06:54 UTC

Description of problem:
With the latest built cmirror rpms an attempt to create a clustered mirror
hangs. There doesn't appear to be any sync issues, or any off by one error, and
the mirror appears to be completely created and in sync from the cluster's point
of view, it's just that the actual cmd to create the mirror never returns.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
[root@taft-03 ~]# rpm -q cmirror
cmirror-1.0.0-5
[root@taft-03 ~]# rpm -q cmirror-kernel
cmirror-kernel-2.6.9-5.4

Comment 1 Jonathan Earl Brassow 2006-06-15 15:22:08 UTC

This is the kernel bug that I will be posting a patch for soon.

After the device is created, lvcreate will attempt to zero out the first bunch
of blocks on the device.  Doing this will cause writes to colide with resync'ing
regions.  This causes a hang in the 2.6.9-39.EL kernel.

To test and see that this is the bug I think it is, you can do 'lvcreate
--nosync ...' and you should not see the hang on lvcreate.  This is because
--nosync says that it will not initially re-sync the mirror - meaning there can
be no colision.

Comment 2 Corey Marthaler 2006-06-15 16:11:23 UTC

This hang does not happen when using the --nosync on creation.

Comment 4 Jonathan Earl Brassow 2006-06-21 21:29:14 UTC

please retest with kernel > 39.EL

Comment 5 Jason Baron 2006-06-23 18:43:35 UTC

committed in stream U4 build 39.2. A test kernel with this patch is available
from http://people.redhat.com/~jbaron/rhel4/

Comment 11 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-08-10 23:34:11 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0575.html