Bug ID 715756: Clusterd may not trigger primary election when primary blade has critical filesystems mounted read-only

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP All(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
12.1.2, 12.1.3, 12.1.3.1, 12.1.3.2, 12.1.3.3, 12.1.3.4, 12.1.3.5, 12.1.3.6, 12.1.3.7, 12.1.4, 12.1.4.1, 12.1.5, 12.1.5.1, 12.1.5.2, 12.1.5.3, 12.1.6, 13.0.0, 13.0.0 HF1, 13.0.0 HF2, 13.0.0 HF3, 13.0.1, 13.1.0, 13.1.0.1, 13.1.0.2, 13.1.0.3, 13.1.0.4, 13.1.0.5, 13.1.0.6, 13.1.0.7, 13.1.0.8, 13.1.1, 14.0.0, 14.0.0.1, 14.0.0.2, 14.0.0.3, 14.0.0.4, 14.0.0.5, 14.0.1, 14.0.1.1

Fixed In:
14.1.0, 13.1.1.2

Opened: Apr 18, 2018

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

When filesystems critical to TMOS functional operation are mounted read-only, clusterd on that blade should trigger a primary election if it was primary. Either way, the cluster should be informed of this critical error state.

Impact

The blade with read-only filesystems and degraded functionality might stay primary and claim to be passing traffic.

Conditions

A critical filesystem (e.g., '/', '/var', '/var/run', '/config', '/shared') has been mounted read-only.

Workaround

There is no workaround other than to avoid mounting filesystems read-only on a BIG-IP system.

Fix Information

The blade with read-only filesystems and degraded functionality now yields primaryship to a more healthy cluster member.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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