<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xl="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0" xml:lang="en-US" xml:id="managingfailover">
- <title xml:id="managingfailover.title">Managing Failover</title>
- <para>This chapter describes failover in a Lustre system and includes the following sections:</para>
+ <title xml:id="managingfailover.title">Lustre File System Failover and Multiple-Mount Protection</title>
+ <para>This chapter describes the multiple-mount protection (MMP) feature, which protects the file
+ system from being mounted simultaneously to more than one node. It includes the following
+ sections:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para><xref linkend="dbdoclet.50438213_13563"/></para>
</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><xref xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" linkend="section_etn_4zf_tl"/></para>
+ </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<note>
- <para>For information about high availability(HA) management software, see the documentation for:<itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>Red Hat Cluster Manager at <link
- xlink:href="http://www.redhat.com/software/rha/cluster/manager/"
- xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
- >http://www.redhat.com/software/rha/cluster/manager/</link></para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>Pacemaker at <link
- xlink:href="http://clusterlabs.org/doc/en-US/Pacemaker/1.0/html/Pacemaker_Explained/index.html"
- xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
- >http://clusterlabs.org/doc/en-US/Pacemaker/1.0/html/Pacemaker_Explained/index.html</link></para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist></para>
+ <para>For information about configuring a Lustre file system for failover, see <xref
+ xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" linkend="configuringfailover"/></para>
</note>
<section xml:id="dbdoclet.50438213_13563">
<title>
- <indexterm><primary>multiple-mount protection</primary><see>failover</see></indexterm>
- <indexterm><primary>failover</primary></indexterm>
- Lustre Failover and Multiple-Mount Protection</title>
- <para>The failover functionality in Lustre is implemented with the multiple-mount protection (MMP) feature, which protects the file system from being mounted simultaneously to more than one node. This feature is important in a shared storage environment (for example, when a failover pair of OSTs share a partition).</para>
- <para>Lustre's backend file system, <literal>ldiskfs</literal>, supports the MMP mechanism. A block in the file system is updated by a <literal>kmmpd</literal> daemon at one second intervals, and a sequence number is written in this block. If the file system is cleanly unmounted, then a special "clean" sequence is written to this block. When mounting the file system, <literal>ldiskfs</literal> checks if the MMP block has a clean sequence or not.</para>
+ <indexterm>
+ <primary>multiple-mount protection</primary>
+ </indexterm> Overview of Multiple-Mount Protection</title>
+ <para>The multiple-mount protection (MMP) feature protects the Lustre file system from being
+ mounted simultaneously to more than one node. This feature is important in a shared storage
+ environment (for example, when a failover pair of OSSs share a LUN).</para>
+ <para>The backend file system, <literal>ldiskfs</literal>, supports the MMP mechanism. A block
+ in the file system is updated by a <literal>kmmpd</literal> daemon at one second intervals,
+ and a sequence number is written in this block. If the file system is cleanly unmounted, then
+ a special "clean" sequence is written to this block. When mounting the file system,
+ <literal>ldiskfs</literal> checks if the MMP block has a clean sequence or not.</para>
<para>Even if the MMP block has a clean sequence, <literal>ldiskfs</literal> waits for some interval to guard against the following situations:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<note>
<para>The MMP feature is only supported on Linux kernel versions newer than 2.6.9.</para>
</note>
- <section remap="h3">
- <title><indexterm><primary>failover</primary><secondary>multiple-mount protection</secondary></indexterm>Working with Multiple-Mount Protection</title>
- <para>On a new Lustre file system, MMP is automatically enabled by mkfs.lustre at format time if failover is being used and the kernel and <literal>e2fsprogs</literal> version support it. On an existing file system, a Lustre administrator can manually enable MMP when the file system is unmounted.</para>
- <para>Use the following commands to determine whether MMP is running in Lustre and to enable or disable the MMP feature.</para>
- <para>To determine if MMP is enabled, run:</para>
- <screen>dumpe2fs -h <replaceable>/dev/block_device</replaceable> | grep mmp</screen>
- <para>Here is a sample command:</para>
- <screen>dumpe2fs -h /dev/sdc | grep mmp
+ </section>
+ <section xml:id="section_etn_4zf_tl">
+ <title>Working with Multiple-Mount Protection</title>
+ <para>On a new Lustre file system, MMP is automatically enabled by
+ <literal>mkfs.lustre</literal> at format time if failover is being used and the kernel and
+ <literal>e2fsprogs</literal> version support it. On an existing file system, a Lustre file
+ system administrator can manually enable MMP when the file system is unmounted.</para>
+ <para>Use the following commands to determine whether MMP is running in the Lustre file system
+ and to enable or disable the MMP feature.</para>
+ <para>To determine if MMP is enabled, run:</para>
+ <screen>dumpe2fs -h <replaceable>/dev/block_device</replaceable> | grep mmp</screen>
+ <para>Here is a sample command:</para>
+ <screen>dumpe2fs -h /dev/sdc | grep mmp
Filesystem features: has_journal ext_attr resize_inode dir_index
filetype extent mmp sparse_super large_file uninit_bg</screen>
- <para>To manually disable MMP, run:</para>
- <screen>tune2fs -O ^mmp <replaceable>/dev/block_device</replaceable></screen>
- <para>To manually enable MMP, run:</para>
- <screen>tune2fs -O mmp <replaceable>/dev/block_device</replaceable></screen>
- <para>When MMP is enabled, if <literal>ldiskfs</literal> detects multiple mount attempts after the file system is mounted, it blocks these later mount attempts and reports the time when the MMP block was last updated, the node name, and the device name of the node where the file system is currently mounted.</para>
- </section>
+ <para>To manually disable MMP, run:</para>
+ <screen>tune2fs -O ^mmp <replaceable>/dev/block_device</replaceable></screen>
+ <para>To manually enable MMP, run:</para>
+ <screen>tune2fs -O mmp <replaceable>/dev/block_device</replaceable></screen>
+ <para>When MMP is enabled, if <literal>ldiskfs</literal> detects multiple mount attempts after
+ the file system is mounted, it blocks these later mount attempts and reports the time when the
+ MMP block was last updated, the node name, and the device name of the node where the file
+ system is currently mounted.</para>
</section>
</chapter>
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