[Bug 75621] New: Permission denied trying to touch a file; happens randomly; both ext3 and GPFS

[Bug 75621] New: Permission denied trying to touch a file; happens randomly; both ext3 and GPFS

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            Bug ID: 75621
           Summary: Permission denied trying to touch a file; happens
                    randomly; both ext3 and GPFS
           Product: File System
           Version: 2.5
    Kernel Version: 3.0.13-0.27
          Hardware: x86-64
                OS: Linux
              Tree: Mainline
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P1
         Component: ext3
          Assignee: fs_ext3@kernel-bugs.osdl.org
          Reporter: phillip.l.viana@gmail.com
        Regression: No

Hi,

I am running a benchmark against DB2 in my cluster with several ext3 (SSD) and
GPFS file systems. After running the benchmark for around two days I noticed
that one of the nodes rebooted and that was due to an error touching a file.
The file was being touched by one of the HA monitors of Tivoli System
Automation.

I immediately tried to reproduce the error by touching the file again manually.
I touched the file a few times successfully, then out of the blue I got a
"Permission denied" error. Right after that I kept touching the file and got no
error message.

CPU utilization and I/O utilization were NOT at their peaks. 

This error keeps happening randomly and therefore it is difficult to reproduce.
It has happened both on a GPFS file system and an ext3 file system. Also I
don't have much information on the internals of this problem.

Do you have suggestions on how to instrument/debug/monitor the error so that I
can move on with the investigation and bring more info to this bug report?

Thanks

Phil

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Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> ---
Can you reproduce this on an upstream Linux system without GPFS, or does it
need GPFS added ?

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--- Comment #2 from plvbr <phillip.l.viana@gmail.com> ---
I couldn't reproduce it ever again. I reproduced it two or three times then it
never happened. But as I said it happens on an ext3 system as well. Not sure if
it would still happen on ext3 if I didn't have GPFS compiled.

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Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> changed:

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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |UNREPRODUCIBLE

--- Comment #3 from Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> ---
Thanks - given it was with 3rd party stuff loaded and not reproducible I'm not
sure there is anything more we can do

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