From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kris Vassallo Subject: Re: Stale File handles keep coming back Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 18:01:34 -0700 Message-ID: <1115859694.23663.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1114463253.2487.73.camel@localhost.localdomain> <17006.13241.129839.558300@cse.unsw.edu.au> <1115155275.2894.20.camel@localhost.localdomain> <42786148.1000201@bio.ifi.lmu.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=-0qmmpXEVh6QY9teDk/iu" Cc: Neil Brown , nfs@lists.sourceforge.net Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx1-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.11] helo=sc8-sf-mx1.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list2.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1DW25G-0003jt-SB for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Wed, 11 May 2005 18:01:50 -0700 Received: from meteor.hosting4less.com ([63.99.109.5]) by sc8-sf-mx1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.41) id 1DW25G-00089G-FO for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Wed, 11 May 2005 18:01:50 -0700 To: Frank Steiner In-Reply-To: <42786148.1000201@bio.ifi.lmu.de> Sender: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing. List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: --=-0qmmpXEVh6QY9teDk/iu Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ok, well I have found very good success in killing this stupid stale file handle problem in the 2.6.11 kernel by switching from ext3 to ext2 and then rebooting. For the past 5 days not 1 of my developers has complained about this issue. Obviously if this machine goes down and a fsck starts running on the 750 GB of data, I am in some deep doo doo, but for now I am using this as a way of getting around the problem until someone comes up with a nifty patch. -Kris On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 22:44, Frank Steiner wrote: > Kris Vassallo wrote > > > So in reference to this bug > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=150759 > > it seems as if ridding the system of the journal by instead using ext2 > > is fixing the problem? I can't tell if that bug has anything to do with > > providing ESTALE errors but it seems to have the same effect where you > > can't see files even though they are there. > > Yes, sounds very similar... > > > > > > Has anyone tried using the journal_data_ordered option? I am not sure > > there is a way to do that in reiser but I know it can be done with ext3. > > According to the man page, "data=ordered" is the default. Have you > explicitely changed it? > > I couldn't find any option to change this in reiserfs... --=-0qmmpXEVh6QY9teDk/iu Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ok, well I have found very good success in killing this stupid stale file handle problem in the 2.6.11 kernel by switching from ext3 to ext2 and then rebooting. For the past 5 days not 1 of my developers has complained about this issue.
Obviously if this machine goes down and a fsck starts running on the 750 GB of data, I am in some deep doo doo, but for now I am using this as a way of getting around the problem until someone comes up with a nifty patch.
-Kris

On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 22:44, Frank Steiner wrote: 
Kris Vassallo wrote

> So in reference to this bug
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=150759
> it seems as if ridding the system of the journal by instead using ext2
> is fixing the problem? I can't tell if that bug has anything to do with
> providing ESTALE errors but it seems to have the same effect where you
> can't see files even though they are there. 

Yes, sounds very similar...


> 
>  Has anyone tried using the journal_data_ordered option? I am not sure
> there is a way to do that in reiser but I know it can be done with ext3.

According to the man page, "data=ordered" is the default. Have you
explicitely changed it?

I couldn't find any option to change this in reiserfs...
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