Troubleshooting: Open-iSCSI on RHEL based systems

| February 22, 2022

Applicable versions

All Longhorn versions.

Symptons

The iscsi.service systemd service may add about 2-3 minutes to the boot up time of a node if the node is restarted with longhorn volumes attached to it.

Background

Longhorn uses open-iscsi to create block devices. The RPM (iscsi-initiator-utils) for open-iscsi on Red Hat Enterprise Linux based systems has several system services. The iscsi.service is for reestablishing iSCSI connections upon reboot by reading the database stored in /var/lib/iscsi/nodes.

Longhorn uses the iscsiadm command to create an iSCSI block device individually when a Longhorn volume is attached. This creates a subdirectory in /var/lib/iscsi/nodes. If Longhorn is able to detach the volume from the node, it will clean up the subdirectory in /var/lib/iscsi/nodes. However, if the node crashes or is rebooted when a Longhorn volume is attached to a pod running on that node, the subdirectory in /var/lib/iscsi/nodes will remain there.

Solution

If the iscsi.service is enabled on the node, the service will attempt to discover the nodes left in /var/lib/iscsi/nodes subdirectories. In most cases, Longhorn would be the only user of iSCSI on the node. In that case, it is recommended to disable the iscsi.service on the node:

systemctl disable iscsi.service

It may be possible to use the iscsi.service as intended for non-Longhorn iSCSI devices. In this case, it is necessary to not change the global /etc/iscsi/iscsid.conf for the non-Longhorn devices. Longhorn relies on the default configuration.

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