[LU-8414] DNE: Setting of remote_dir_gid parameter not persistent

• Type: Bug
• Resolution: Cannot Reproduce
• Priority: Critical
• Fix Version/s: Lustre 2.9.0
• Affects Version/s: Lustre 2.9.0
• Labels: soak
• Environment: lola; build: https://build.hpdd.intel.com/job/lustre-master/3406
• Severity: 3
• Assignee: Lai Siyao
• Reporter: Frank Heckes (Inactive)

Description

Error occured during soak testing of build '20160713' (see https://wiki.hpdd.intel.com/display/Releases/Soak+Testing+on+Lola#SoakTestingonLola-20160713). MDSes have been configured using ldiskfs, OSTs using zfs. Test environment consist of 4 MDSes with 1 MDT each, 6 OSSes with 4 OSTs each. MDS and OSS nodes are configured in active-active HA configuration.
Roles:

• lola-8 MGS/MDS
• lola-[9-11] MDS

DNE has been enabled using the command sequence (see Lustre manual page 96):

pdsh -g mds 'lctl set_param mdt.*.enable_remote_dir=1'
pdsh -g mds 'lctl set_param mdt.*.enable_remote_dir_gid=-1'
especially
pdsh -w lola-8 'lctl set_param -P mdt.*.enable_remote_dir=1'
pdsh -w lola-8 'lctl set_param -P mdt.*.enable_remote_dir_git=-1'

(The later two commands only work on MGS node).
Problem occur after each of the node lola-[9-11] have been restarted or resourcres had been failover / failedback.
While parameter 'enable_remote_dir' is persistent on the non MGS MDSes, the parameter 'enable_remote_dir_gid' isn't.
Therefore the command:

[soaktest@lola-16 ~]$ lfs setdirstripe -c 4 -i 1  /mnt/soaked/soaktest/hsm_rbh/
error on LL_IOC_LMV_SETSTRIPE '/mnt/soaked/soaktest/hsm_rbh/' (3): Operation not permitted
error: setdirstripe: create stripe dir '/mnt/soaked/soaktest/hsm_rbh/' failed

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--> Remote dir setting:
----------------
lola-8
----------------
Remote dir_gid setting soaked-MDT0000: -1
----------------
lola-9
----------------
Remote dir_gid setting soaked-MDT0001: 0
----------------
lola-10
----------------
Remote dir_gid setting soaked-MDT0002: -1
----------------
lola-11
----------------
Remote dir_gid setting soaked-MDT0003: 0

failed. This will break all test (slurm) jobs that rely on this functionality.

After setting the parameters on the nodes again the command

[soaktest@lola-16 ~]$ lfs setdirstripe -c 4 -i 1  /mnt/soaked/soaktest/hsm_rbh/
^A2[soaktest@lola-16 ~]$ lfs setdirstripe -c 4 -i 1  -D /mnt/soaked/soaktest/hsm_rbh/
[soaktest@lola-16 ~]$ lfs getdirstripe  /mnt/soaked/soaktest/hsm_rbh/
/mnt/soaked/soaktest/hsm_rbh/
[soaktest@lola-16 ~]$ lfs getdirstripe  /mnt/soaked/soaktest/hsm_rbh/
/mnt/soaked/soaktest/hsm_rbh/
lmv_stripe_count: 4 lmv_stripe_offset: 1
mdtidx           FID[seq:oid:ver]
     1           [0x240007160:0x3:0x0]
     2           [0x28000d714:0x3:0x0]
     3           [0x2c000a810:0x1:0x0]
     0           [0x20000fe01:0x3:0x0]

end successful.

Issue Links

• is related to: LU-7004 fix "lctl set_param -P" to allow deprecation of "lctl conf_param"