[Users] simfs with ploop?

Devon B. devon.b at virtualcomplete.com
Wed Jan 21 08:53:26 PST 2015


A couple have the ploop device and a couple don't*

> Devon B. <mailto:devon.b at virtualcomplete.com>
> Wednesday, January 21, 2015 11:52 AM
> I looked at a few more containers.  A couple have the ploop device and
> a couple do.  I'm not sure why.  Most that do have the ploop devices
> have a bunch of stale ones.  For instance:
>
> # vzctl exec #### ls -l "/dev/ploop*"
> b-----x--- 1 root root 182, 300625 Jan 18 22:57 /dev/ploop18789p1
> b-----x--- 1 root root 182, 355073 Jan 18 22:57 /dev/ploop22192p1
> b-----x--- 1 root root 182, 371265 Jan 18 22:57 /dev/ploop23204p1
> b-----x--- 1 root root 182, 428529 Jan 18 22:57 /dev/ploop26783p1
> b-----x--- 1 root root 182, 525073 Jan 18 22:57 /dev/ploop32817p1
> b-----x--- 1 root root 182, 655857 Jan 18 22:57 /dev/ploop40991p1
> b-----x--- 1 root root 182, 727537 Jan 18 22:57 /dev/ploop45471p1
> brw-rw---T 1 root disk 182, 749697 Jan 18 22:57 /dev/ploop46856p1
> b-----x--- 1 root root 182, 773185 Jan 18 22:57 /dev/ploop48324p1
> b-----x--- 1 root root 182, 864529 Jan 18 22:57 /dev/ploop54033p1
> b-----x--- 1 root root 182, 897201 Jan 18 22:57 /dev/ploop56075p1
>
> The active one is pretty obvious (/dev/ploop46856p1).    It doesn't
> seem to be specific to node or kernel, the containers are split on the
> same system.
>
> Have you filed a bug report?
>
> Rene C. <mailto:openvz at dokbua.com>
> Wednesday, January 21, 2015 11:27 AM
> The reason I became aware of the problem was that a cpanel servers
> started sending this message every morning:
>
> repquota: Can't stat() mounted device /dev/ploop50951p1: No such file
> or directory
>
> All containers on another hardware node and several on this have the
> devices working correctly within the containers.
>
>
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> Devon B. <mailto:devon.b at virtualcomplete.com>
> Wednesday, January 21, 2015 11:11 AM
> I can't speak as to how to address the issue, but why do you consider
> it messed up?  I logged in to a few nodes and saw the same thing on
> all of them and I don't remember this being any different in the
> past.  The ploop device only exists outside of the container (when
> mounted).  Inside the container is just a reference, no actual device
> exists.
>
> I don't know enough about the original issue, what are you trying to
> accomplish with the ploop device inside the container?
>
>
> Rene C. <mailto:openvz at dokbua.com>
> Wednesday, January 21, 2015 6:47 AM
> I've gone through all containers and actually some of them work
> correctly, only some are messed up like this.
>
> Take for example this one:
>
> [root at server22 ~]# vzctl restart 2201
> Restarting container
> Stopping container ...
> Container was stopped
> Unmounting file system at /vz/root/2201
> Unmounting device /dev/ploop27939
> Container is unmounted
> Starting container...
> Opening delta /vz/private/2201/root.hdd/root.hdd
> Adding delta dev=/dev/ploop27939
> img=/vz/private/2201/root.hdd/root.hdd (ro)
> Adding delta dev=/dev/ploop27939
> img=/vz/private/2201/root.hdd/root.hdd.{7a09b730-f2d6-4b21-b856-0bd6ca420a6e}
> (rw)
> Mounting /dev/ploop27939p1 at /vz/root/2201 fstype=ext4
> data='balloon_ino=12,'
> Container is mounted
> Adding IP address(es): (redacted)
> Setting CPU limit: 400
> Setting CPU units: 50
> Setting CPUs: 4
> Container start in progress...
>
> So apparently the ploop device should be /dev/ploop/27939. Everything
> seems to work, inside the container this device is referred by
> /proc/mounts
>
> [root at server22 ~]# vzctl exec 2201 cat /proc/mounts
> /dev/ploop27939p1 / ext4
> rw,relatime,barrier=1,data=ordered,balloon_ino=12 0 0
> proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0
> sysfs /sys sysfs rw,relatime 0 0
> none /dev tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755 0 0
> none /dev/pts devpts rw,relatime,mode=600,ptmxmode=000 0 0
> none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw,relatime 0 0
>
> But the device is actually missing:
>
> [root at server22 ~]# vzctl exec 2201 ls -l /dev/ploop27939p1
> ls: /dev/ploop27939p1: No such file or directory
>
> In fact, there doesn't seem to be ANY /dev/ploop devices in this container
>
> [root at server22 ~]# vzctl exec 2201 ls -l /dev/ploop*
> ls: /dev/ploop18940: No such file or directory
> ls: /dev/ploop18940p1: No such file or directory
> ls: /dev/ploop26517: No such file or directory
> ls: /dev/ploop26517p1: No such file or directory
> ls: /dev/ploop27379: No such file or directory
> ls: /dev/ploop27379p1: No such file or directory
> ls: /dev/ploop27939: No such file or directory
> ls: /dev/ploop27939p1: No such file or directory
> ls: /dev/ploop50951: No such file or directory
> ls: /dev/ploop50951p1: No such file or directory
> ls: /dev/ploop52860: No such file or directory
> ls: /dev/ploop52860p1: No such file or directory
> ls: /dev/ploop58415: No such file or directory
> ls: /dev/ploop58415p1: No such file or directory
>
> Why does it shows devices when there are none present?   Obviously
> something is messed up, how can we fix this?
>
>
>
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> Rene C. <mailto:openvz at dokbua.com>
> Tuesday, January 20, 2015 12:04 PM
>
> No takers?
>
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