Re: 0 byte files and ll_readdir() error

On Apr 25, 2007  08:38 -0600, Daniel Leaberry wrote:
> >On Apr 24, 2007  08:42 -0600, Daniel Leaberry wrote:
> >>We're running 1.6b7 and have noticed the following two problems. I'm 
> >>wondering if they're correlated.
> >>
> >>1. We get files that are 0 bytes. They have nothing in them.
> >
> >This may or may not be related to the recent bug 12181 problem.
> >That bug will be fixed in 1.6.0+ and 1.4.10.1 and 1.4.11+.
> >
> >It can also happen if the clients are evicted while they are
> >writing to the file.
>
> I figured out why this happened but I'm not sure if my explanation is 
> valid. We run lustre as more of a general purpose filesystem but usually 
> with larger size files. We use autofs to mount and unmount filesystems. 
> The timeout is set to 120 seconds (after that much inactivity the 
> filesystem is unmounted)

Please try the patch in bug 12181.  This sounds like it may be related.


Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Principal Software Engineer
Cluster File Systems, Inc.