Re: Many open/close on same files yeilds "No such file or directory".

From: Henry Nestler
Date: Mon May 05 2008 - 15:06:52 EST


Jesper Krogh wrote:
> Randy.Dunlap wrote:
>> On Mon, 5 May 2008, Jesper Krogh wrote:
>>
>>> Jesper Krogh wrote:
>>>> Ray Lee wrote:
>>>>> BTW, I may have missed this earlier, but does it happen *anywhere* on
>>>>> the troublesome filesystem (ie, in a newly created subdirectory)?
>>>> Yes. It is reproducible on a newly created subdirectory on the
>>>> filesystem.
>>> Now I've created a new filesystem. (resized the original LVM-volume to half
>>> and created a new ext3 one next to it). The problem persists on this new
>>> filesystem.
>>>
>>> Just guessing, can there be something timing related in clearing the FS-cache
>>> for the filesystem?
>>>
>>> Any other suggestions/pointers.
>> Hi,
>>
>> Has anyone else been able to reproduce this problem?
>
> No, and out of my systems. I only have this external SCSI-IDE-raid
> device I can reproduce it on. The internal system disks doesnt allow me
> to reproduce it on the same installation.
>

Can you create a set of empty files, made loop devices with 'losetup'
and create the LVM from it? This array then you can check on the
internal disk.

Second idea: What is, if you create an ext3 filesystem without LVM on
the troublefs?

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Henry N.
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