Re: ESB mount on worker node : Too many levels of symbolic links

From: Cedar McKay <no email>
Date: Sat, 31 May 2014 07:45:49 -0700

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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