Re: FSX on NFS blew up.

From: Badari Pulavarty
Date: Wed Oct 04 2006 - 19:34:27 EST


Dave Jones wrote:
On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 05:46:10PM -0700, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 20:40 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 05:34:44PM -0700, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 12:49 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> > > > Took ~8hrs to hit this on an NFSv3 mount. (2.6.18+Jan Kara's jbd patch)
> > > > > > > > http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/junk/fsx-nfs.txt
> > > > > > I was seeing *similar* problem on NFS mounted filesystem (while running
> > > fsx), but later realized that filesystem is full - when it happend.
> > > > > > Could be fsx error handling problem ? Can you check yours ?
> > > > It's running low, but there's no way it ran out. (It's down to about 4GB free).
> > > > Dave > > > > Okay... Looking at your log
> > > Size error: expected 0x2b804 stat 0x37000 seek 0x37000
> > filesize doesn't match. So wondering, if you have a write
> failure or filesystem full case.

The server didn't report anything nasty in its logs, and *touch wood*
hasn't had any hardware problems to date.
FWIW, On 2.6.18-mm3 I ran (4-copies) fsx on NFS mount for 24 hours
without any issues. I do see segfaults and errors when the filesystem is full -
those are mostly fsx error handling issues.

Thanks,
Badari

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