Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 126952
Can't unfreeze GFS filesystem with outstanding write request
Last modified: 2010-01-11 21:53:24 EST
Description of problem: Three node setup with one filesystem. Mounted the GFS on one node. Issued a gfs_tool freeze /mntpt to the filesystem. With the fs frozen ran 'cp /etc/hosts /mntpt'. Issued 'gfs_tool unfreeze /mntpt' Expected from previous behavior (6.0.0) that when the filesystem was unfrozen the outstanding requests would be granted and traffic could resume. What I'm seeing is that the 'gfs_tool unfreeze /mntpt' command hangs and never completes. Have to restart cluster to get back at the fs. This is with the lock_dlm lock manager. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): [root@link-12 root]# gfs_tool -V gfs_tool DEVEL.1088539777 (built Jun 29 2004 15:10:57) Copyright (C) Red Hat, Inc. 2004 All rights reserved. How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
This also seems to happen when using gulm as the lock manager.
Now, GFS freezes and unfreezes a filesystem by reading and writing to /proc/fs/gfs instead of doing ioctl()s directly on GFS files. This fixes a bug where a process trying to unfreeze a filesystem would end up blocking behind another process holding a lock on the mountpoint and waiting for the filesystem to be unfrozen. This bug has always been present, but it's much more visible in the 2.6 code. Note that the arguments to "gfs_tool [un]freeze" need to be exactly what's found in /proc/mounts now.
This is version 4.
Arguments from /proc/mounts don't appear to be acceptable to gfs_tool. [root@link-10 fs]# cat /proc/mounts | grep gfs /dev/gfs/gfs1 /mnt/gfs1 gfs rw,noatime,nodiratime 0 0 /dev/gfs/gfs2 /mnt/gfs2 gfs rw,noatime,nodiratime 0 0 [root@link-10 fs]# gfs_tool freeze /mnt/gfs1 gfs_tool: unknown mountpoint /mnt/gfs1 [root@link-10 fs]# gfs_tool freeze /dev/gfs/gfs1 gfs_tool: unknown mountpoint /dev/gfs/gfs1
This is a bug in the way "gfs_tool [freeze|unfreeze|withdraw]" works with device mapper targets. It should be fixed now.
This should be fixed. Reopen if you have problems.
Verified. [root@link-11 /]# gfs_tool -V gfs_tool 6.1-pre8 (built Jan 7 2005 17:08:37)