All repos unmounted after reboot

Hi,

Running version cvmfs-2.7.4-1.el7.x86_64

Last week, I found all repositories in our Stratum-0 in a weird state. The directories /cvmfs/<repo>/ where empty, and writable. The command “cvmfs_server list” marked all of them as unhealthy, like this:

[root@cvmfs-release01 ~]# cvmfs_server list
auger.egi.eu (stratum0 / local - unhealthy)
biomed.egi.eu (stratum0 / local - unhealthy)
cc34.egi.eu (stratum0 / local - unhealthy)
ccp4-sw.egi.eu (stratum0 / local - unhealthy)
cernatschool.egi.eu (stratum0 / local - unhealthy)
chipster.egi.eu (stratum0 / local - unhealthy)
comet.egi.eu (stratum0 / local - unhealthy)
config-egi.egi.eu (stratum0 / local - unhealthy)
config-test.egi.eu (stratum0 / local - unhealthy)

It got fixed by running “cvmfs_server mount -a”.
However, after rebooting the host, the same problem happened again.

Does anybody know why this happens? Anything to add to the configuration to prevent it from happening again?

Thanks a lot in advance.
Cheers,
Jose

Hi Jose,

Looking at the docs the fact that the repositories are not mounted by default on boot is by design.

A repository is automatically mounted the first time a transaction is started for it.

I see that you are running CernVM-FS 2.7.4, which is quite old. Is there a reason for that? CernVM-FS 2.9.0 was released recently, which comes with many improvements.

Cheers,
Radu

Hi Radu,

thanks a lot for the explanation. Feeling more relaxed now that I know there is nothing broken with our setup.

Upgrading to 2.9 is definitely in the TO DO list.

Cheers,
Jose