Can't say I have seen your issues. There have been plenty of RHEL NFS fixes in most of the kernel release thus far. All I can tell you is to try it out and be prepared to revert to nfsv3 if it doesn't work out.
If it does not work out, try and set up a small testbed where you can get line traces and open support calls with NetApp and/or RedHat.
--tmac
*Tim McCarthy* *Principal Consultant*
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On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Scott Eno s.eno@me.com wrote:
Are there any NetApp bug reports you can point me to?
We aren't using any of the "higher brain functions" of NFSv4 like file ownership and kerberos. UNIX admins started using it to fix a problem they saw on a volume shared by, up to, 17 hosts. Under NFSv3, when one host would write a file to the volume, other hosts wouldn't see the file. This problem goes away with NFSv4 mounts. Other problems, however, are appearing. A host will lose a mount to the NetApp and start writing to local disk. The RHEL OS, however, is adamant that the mount is still there. Very strange.
They are also seeing "Bad Sequence ID" errors in the RHEL logs, but both NetApp and Red Hat claim this issue was resolved in earlier versions of their respective OS's.
Now I'm wondering if 8.1.2 contains enough fixes for NFSv4 to cover our issues as well.
On Dec 3, 2012, at 9:13 AM, tmac tmacmd@gmail.com wrote:
Should have mentioned the bugs that I have seen are fixed in 8.1.2
In my environment....performance related bugs. I was fine with a couple dozen hosts... opening the floodgates to a couple hundred nfsv4 hosts broke. Had to revert to nfsv3 (not a big deal, just revert the autofs table I was using).
--tmac
*Tim McCarthy* *Principal Consultant*
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On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Scott Eno s.eno@me.com wrote:
Hi,
Your mentioned in the cluster thread of NFSv4 bugs caught my eye. Can you elaborate on that? We are moving RHEL 6.x servers to NFSv4 and a few odd issues have popped up (Bad Sequence ID errors, losing mounts).
Running 8.1.1P1 across the board.
On Dec 2, 2012, at 8:57 PM, tmac tmacmd@gmail.com wrote:
To the best if my knowledge, there is still no in place upgrade to clustered ontap. You must migrate to different heads.
With that said, I have three different clusters... One large (4 fas 6280's) in my lab, one small(2 x fas 3240's) on my regular network and one more (2 x fas6080) used as backup or inter cluster snap mirror.
Still 8.1.1p1d1
All I can say right now is watch out for a few nfsv4/parallel NFS bugs. Other than that... It had been real nice. On Dec 2, 2012 7:57 PM, "Peter D. Gray" pdg@uow.edu.au wrote:
Hi people,
I am contemplating going to cluster mode on our 3170A and was wondering what peoples experience has been?
Any problems or gotchas?
We are on 8.1.2.
Regards, pdg
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