[Pacemaker] Is synchronizing rmtab needed?

[Dejan Muhamedagic]

Hi,

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 01:36:56AM +0200, Christoph Bartoschek wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> we currently have the problem that when the NFS server is highly used the 
> heartbeat:exportfs monitor script fails with a timeout because it cannot 
> write the rmtab to the exported filesystem within the given time. 

There was a fix recently which prevents that rmtab grows
indefinitely (search the github history and ML archives for more
details). Did you check the size of the file?

Thanks,

Dejan

> This causes lots of problems because pacemaker then tries to cleanup 
> resources. Unfortunatley pacemaker cannot know that everything will be fine 
> after the utilization goes down.
> 
> My question is now. Is it necessary to synchronize rmtab? Shouldn't the 
> clients just reconnect after a timeout?
> 
> -- 
> Christoph Bartoschek
> 
> 
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