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From: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
To: Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Kevin Vasko <kvasko@gmail.com>,
	Linux NFS Mailing List <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: NFSv4 client locks up on larger writes with Kerberos enabled
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 10:06:26 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <57192382-86BE-4878-9AE0-B22833D56367@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190925164831.GA9366@fieldses.org>



> On Sep 25, 2019, at 9:48 AM, bfields@fieldses.org wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 06:36:13PM -0500, Kevin Vasko wrote:
>> We have a new Dell EMC Unity 300 acting as NAS Server that is
>> presenting a NFSv4 NFS Share. Our clients are mostly Ubuntu 18.04.3
>> but issue is also present on CentOS 7.6 systems. We have been
>> struggling with this issue for over a week now and not sure how to
>> resolve it.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> We are having trouble with NFS Clients completing their writes to the
>> Dell EMC Unity 300 NFS Server when Kerberos is enabled on the NFS
>> Share. I created the NFS Share on the U300, associated it with our
>> FreeIPA (Kerberos/LDAP server) and everything shows successful.
> 
> Troubleshooting ideas off the top of my head:
> 
> It might be worth trying some other client versions if it's not hard.
> 
> It'd be interesting to know what's happening on the network....
> Unfortunately big krb5p writes won't be fun to try to capture and
> examine.

Wireshark is supposed to have a mechanism for giving it the keys
so that captured GSS data can be decrypted. I've never gotten it
to work, but I didn't try hard. Should be appropriately documented.


> Maybe some network or rpc-level statistics would help show if
> there are an unusual number of retries or failures.


--
Chuck Lever




  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-25 17:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-18 23:36 NFSv4 client locks up on larger writes with Kerberos enabled Kevin Vasko
     [not found] ` <E172CA50-EC89-4072-9C1D-1B825DC3FE8B@lysator.liu.se>
2019-09-19 14:19   ` Kevin Vasko
     [not found]     ` <72E82F62-C743-4783-B81E-98E6A8E35738@lysator.liu.se>
2019-09-19 14:58       ` Kevin Vasko
2019-09-25 16:48 ` J. Bruce Fields
2019-09-25 17:06   ` Chuck Lever [this message]
2019-09-25 18:44     ` Kevin Vasko
2019-09-25 18:49       ` Chuck Lever
2019-09-25 19:10         ` Kevin Vasko
2019-09-25 20:07         ` Bruce Fields
2019-09-26 15:55           ` Chuck Lever
2019-09-26 16:05             ` Bruce Fields
2019-09-26 19:55             ` Bruce Fields
2019-09-30 14:51               ` Kevin Vasko
2019-09-30 16:19                 ` Bruce Fields
2019-09-26  7:30       ` Daniel Kobras
2019-09-26 16:25 Kevin Vasko

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