[StarCluster] ESB mount on worker node : Too many levels of symbolic links

Cedar McKay cmckay at uw.edu
Sat May 31 10:45:49 EDT 2014


Just to sanity check, try it with a different snapshot.

Also try a different mount point just in case you have an existing link at that location.


Cedar

> On May 31, 2014, at 4:49 AM, ronen artzi <ronen.artzi at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks Rayson for your response. 
> 
> The EBS contains only two files in in. and is attached an nfs mounted by starcluster start process.
> it seems that home , opt and data again are linked under /data/testme ( on master it all looks good ) 
> 
> 
> On the master I am getting the following ( as expected):
> root at master:~# ls -l /data/
> 
> total 4
> 
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 31 03:56 testme
> 
> root at master:~# ls -l /data/testme/
> 
> total 0
> 
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 May 31 03:37 ronen2.txt
> 
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 May 30 20:13 ronen.txt
> 
> 
> On the node side when running ls -l I am getting the following : 
> root at node001:~# ls -l /data/
> 
> total 4
> 
> drwxr-xr-x 26 root root 4096 May 31 11:35 testme
> 
> root at node001:~# ls -l /data/testme/
> 
> ls: cannot access /data/testme/data: Too many levels of symbolic links
> 
> total 8
> 
> d????????? ? ?    ?       ?            ? data
> 
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 May 31 11:35 home
> 
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 May 31 11:35 opt
> 
> 
> The EBS was created from a snapshot.
> Thanks
> Ronen
> 
>> On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 2:08 AM, Rayson Ho <raysonlogin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 1:05 AM, ronen artzi <ronen.artzi at gmail.com> wrote: 
>>> root at node001:/data/testme# ls /data/testme/
>>> ls: cannot access /data/testme/data: Too many levels of symbolic links
>>> data  home  opt
>>> 
>>> What am I doing wrong ? 
>> 
>> Looks like you have symbolic link loops in /data/testme/ - most likely it is the link named "data".
>> 
>> You can tell which link is causing the loop easily by looking for it level by level:
>> 
>> ls -l /data
>> ls -l /data/testme
>> ls -l /data/testme/data
>> 
>> May be /data/testme/data is pointing back to /data??
>> 
>> Rayson
>> 
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