Hi Niels, The question if we keep getting the lockd error even after restart and rebooted the NFS client.. Peter ________________________________________ From: Niels de Vos [ndevos@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2015 3:26 AM To: Peter Auyeung Cc: gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx; gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [Gluster-devel] lockd: server not responding, timed out On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 11:50:26PM +0000, Peter Auyeung wrote: > We have a 6 nodes gluster running ubuntu on xfs sharing gluster > volumes over NFS been running fine for 3 months. > We restarted glusterfs-server on one of the node and all NFS clients > start getting the " lockd: server not responding, timed out" on > /var/log/messages > > We are still able to read write but seems like process that require a > persistent file lock failed like database exports. > > We have an interim fix to remount the NFS with nolock option but need > to know why that is necessary all in a sudden after a service > glusterfs-server restart on one of the gluster node The cause that you need to mount wiht 'nolock' is that one server can only have one NLM-service active. The Linux NFS-client uses the 'lockd' kernel module, and the Gluster/NFS server provides its own lock manager. To be able to use a lock manager, it needs to be registered at rpcbind/portmapper. Only one lock manager can be registered at a time, the 2nd one that tries to register will fail. In case the NFS-client has registered the lockd kernel module as lock manager, any locking requests to the Gluster/NFS service will fail and you will see those messages in /var/log/messages. This is one of the main reasons why it is not advised to access volumes over NFS on a Gluster storage server. You should rather use the GlusterFS protocol for mounting volumes locally. (Or even better, seperate your storage servers from the application servers.) HTH, Niels _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
