On Tue, 2020-02-18 at 15:19 +0800, Xiubo Li wrote: > On 2020/2/17 21:04, Jeff Layton wrote: > > On Sun, 2020-02-16 at 01:49 -0500, xiubli@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > From: Xiubo Li <xiubli@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > This will simulate pulling the power cable situation, which will > > > do: > > > > > > - abort all the inflight osd/mds requests and fail them with -EIO. > > > - reject any new coming osd/mds requests with -EIO. > > > - close all the mds connections directly without doing any clean up > > > and disable mds sessions recovery routine. > > > - close all the osd connections directly without doing any clean up. > > > - set the msgr as stopped. > > > > > > URL: https://tracker.ceph.com/issues/44044 > > > Signed-off-by: Xiubo Li <xiubli@xxxxxxxxxx> > > There is no explanation of how to actually _use_ this feature? I assume > > you have to remount the fs with "-o remount,halt" ? Is it possible to > > reenable the mount as well? If not, why keep the mount around? Maybe we > > should consider wiring this in to a new umount2() flag instead? > > > > This needs much better documentation. > > > > In the past, I've generally done this using iptables. Granted that that > > is difficult with a clustered fs like ceph (given that you potentially > > have to set rules for a lot of addresses), but I wonder whether a scheme > > like that might be more viable in the long run. > > > How about fulfilling the DROP iptable rules in libceph ? Could you > foresee any problem ? This seems the one approach could simulate pulling > the power cable. > Yeah, I've mostly done this using DROP rules when I needed to test things. But, I think I was probably just guilty of speculating out loud here. I think doing this by just closing down the sockets is probably fine. I wouldn't pursue anything relating to to iptables here, unless we have some larger reason to go that route. -- Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>