lsblk reports FSTYPE of devices with partition tables as empty string "",
which is indistinguishable from empty devices. We must look for dependent
devices (i.e. partitions) to see that the device is really empty and report
error otherwise.
I checked that LVM, LUKS and MD RAID have their own FSTYPE in lsblk output,
so it should be only a partition table that has empty FSTYPE.
The main point of this patch is to run lsblk without "-n", i.e. print all
dependent devices and check if they're there.
Automatic merge from submit-queue (batch tested with PRs 35094, 42095, 42059, 42143, 41944)
Use chroot for containerized mounts
This PR is to modify the containerized mounter script to use chroot
instead of rkt fly. This will avoid the problem of possible large number
of mounts caused by rkt containers if they are not cleaned up.
Automatic merge from submit-queue (batch tested with PRs 41714, 41510, 42052, 41918, 31515)
Show specific error when a volume is formatted by unexpected filesystem.
kubelet now detects that e.g. xfs volume is being mounted as ext3 because of
wrong volume.Spec.
Mount error is left in the error message to diagnose issues with mounting e.g.
'ext3' volume as 'ext4' - they are different filesystems, however kernel should
mount ext3 as ext4 without errors.
Example kubectl describe pod output:
```
FirstSeen LastSeen Count From SubobjectPath Type Reason Message
41s 3s 7 {kubelet ip-172-18-3-82.ec2.internal} Warning FailedMount MountVolume.MountDevice failed for volume "kubernetes.io/aws-ebs/aws://us-east-1d/vol-ba79c81d" (spec.Name: "pvc-ce175cbb-6b82-11e6-9fe4-0e885cca73d3") pod "3d19cb64-6b83-11e6-9fe4-0e885cca73d3" (UID: "3d19cb64-6b83-11e6-9fe4-0e885cca73d3") with: failed to mount the volume as "ext4", it's already formatted with "xfs". Mount error: mount failed: exit status 32
Mounting arguments: /dev/xvdba /var/lib/kubelet/plugins/kubernetes.io/aws-ebs/mounts/aws/us-east-1d/vol-ba79c81d ext4 [defaults]
Output: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/xvdba,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so.
```
This PR is to modify the containerized mounter script to use chroot
instead of rkt fly. This will avoid the problem of possible large number
of mounts caused by rkt containers if they are not cleaned up.
kubelet now detects that e.g. xfs volume is being mounted as ext3 because of
wrong volume.Spec.
Mount error is left in the error message to diagnose issues with mounting e.g.
'ext3' volume as 'ext4' - they are different filesystems, however kernel should
mount ext3 as ext4 without errors.
Automatic merge from submit-queue
Enable lazy initialization of ext3/ext4 filesystems
**What this PR does / why we need it**: It enables lazy inode table and journal initialization in ext3 and ext4.
**Which issue this PR fixes** *(optional, in `fixes #<issue number>(, fixes #<issue_number>, ...)` format, will close that issue when PR gets merged)*: fixes#30752, fixes#30240
**Release note**:
```release-note
Enable lazy inode table and journal initialization for ext3 and ext4
```
**Special notes for your reviewer**:
This PR removes the extended options to mkfs.ext3/mkfs.ext4, so that the defaults (enabled) for lazy initialization are used.
These extended options come from a script that was historically located at */usr/share/google/safe_format_and_mount* and later ported to GO so this dependency to the script could be removed. After some search, I found the original script here: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/compute-image-packages/blob/legacy/google-startup-scripts/usr/share/google/safe_format_and_mount
Checking the history of this script, I found the commit [Disable lazy init of inode table and journal.](4d7346f7f5). This one introduces the extended flags with this description:
```
Now that discard with guaranteed zeroing is supported by PD,
initializing them is really fast and prevents perf from being affected
when the filesystem is first mounted.
```
The problem is, that this is not true for all cloud providers and all disk types, e.g. Azure and AWS. I only tested with magnetic disks on Azure and AWS, so maybe it's different for SSDs on these cloud providers. The result is that this performance optimization dramatically increases the time needed to format a disk in such cases.
When mkfs.ext4 is told to not lazily initialize the inode tables and the check for guaranteed zeroing on discard fails, it falls back to a very naive implementation that simply loops and writes zeroed buffers to the disk. Performance on this highly depends on free memory and also uses up all this free memory for write caching, reducing performance of everything else in the system.
As of https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/30752, there is also something inside kubelet that somehow degrades performance of all this. It's however not exactly known what it is but I'd assume it has something to do with cgroups throttling IO or memory.
I checked the kernel code for lazy inode table initialization. The nice thing is, that the kernel also does the guaranteed zeroing on discard check. If it is guaranteed, the kernel uses discard for the lazy initialization, which should finish in a just few seconds. If it is not guaranteed, it falls back to using *bio*s, which does not require the use of the write cache. The result is, that free memory is not required and not touched, thus performance is maxed and the system does not suffer.
As the original reason for disabling lazy init was a performance optimization and the kernel already does this optimization by default (and in a much better way), I'd suggest to completely remove these flags and rely on the kernel to do it in the best way.
This change is to only enable containerized mounter for nfs and
glusterfs types. For other types such as tmpfs, ext2/3/4 or empty type,
we should still use mount from $PATH
When kubelet restarts, all the information about the volumes will be
gone from actual/desired states. When update node status with mounted
volumes, the volume list might be empty although there are still volumes
are mounted and in turn causing master to detach those volumes since
they are not in the mounted volumes list. This fix is to make sure only
update mounted volumes list after reconciler starts sync states process.
This sync state process will scan the existing volume directories and
reconstruct actual states if they are missing.
This PR also fixes the problem during orphaned pods' directories. In
case of the pod directory is unmounted but has not yet deleted (e.g.,
interrupted with kubelet restarts), clean up routine will delete the
directory so that the pod directoriy could be cleaned up (it is safe to
delete directory since it is no longer mounted)
The third issue this PR fixes is that during reconstruct volume in
actual state, mounter could not be nil since it is required for creating
container.VolumeMap. If it is nil, it might cause nil pointer exception
in kubelet.
Details are in proposal PR #33203
In order to be able to use new mounter library, this PR adds the
mounterPath flag to kubelet which passes the flag to the mount
interface. If flag is empty, mount uses default mount path.
Currently kubelet volume management works on the concept of desired
and actual world of states. The volume manager periodically compares the
two worlds and perform volume mount/unmount and/or attach/detach
operations. When kubelet restarts, the cache of those two worlds are
gone. Although desired world can be recovered through apiserver, actual
world can not be recovered which may cause some volumes cannot be cleaned
up if their information is deleted by apiserver. This change adds the
reconstruction of the actual world by reading the pod directories from
disk. The reconstructed volume information is added to both desired
world and actual world if it cannot be found in either world. The rest
logic would be as same as before, desired world populator may clean up
the volume entry if it is no longer in apiserver, and then volume
manager should invoke unmount to clean it up.
IsLikelyNotMountPoint determines if a directory is not a mountpoint.
It is fast but not necessarily ALWAYS correct. If the path is in fact
a bind mount from one part of a mount to another it will not be detected.
mkdir /tmp/a /tmp/b; mount --bin /tmp/a /tmp/b; IsLikelyNotMountPoint("/tmp/b")
will return true. When in fact /tmp/b is a mount point. So this patch
renames the function and switches it from a positive to a negative (I
could think of a good positive name). This should make future users of
this function aware that it isn't quite perfect, but probably good
enough.
Jan Safranek