From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Tue, 15 Aug 2006 07:20:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from omx1.americas.sgi.com (omx1.americas.sgi.com [198.149.16.13]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id k7FEK1DW006505 for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 07:20:14 -0700 Received: from internal-mail-relay1.corp.sgi.com (internal-mail-relay1.corp.sgi.com [198.149.32.52]) by omx1.americas.sgi.com (8.12.10/8.12.9/linux-outbound_gateway-1.1) with ESMTP id k7FDL4nx020589 for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 08:21:04 -0500 Message-ID: <44E1CA29.7080406@sgi.com> Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 08:20:41 -0500 From: Bill Kendall MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Bug in xfsrestore or NFS+XFS Filesystem on NFS Server ? Can anyone confirm ? References: <200608120956.47466.juergen.sauer@automatix.de> In-Reply-To: <200608120956.47466.juergen.sauer@automatix.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: juergen.sauer@automatix.de Cc: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com On 08/12/06 02:56, Juergen Sauer wrote: > Since that the last restore works, I think there is a bug in xfsrestore or xfs/nfs in the kernel 2.6.17. > Backupserver, Server, Knoppix are bugfixed 2.6.17(.7). Restoring the dump via nfs failed due "too much open files". > > Does xfsrestore opens really 512k files ? I do not belive that. > So It could a problem in Kernel or NFS Stack be the problem. Not intentionally, but there could be a file descriptor leak somewhere in xfsrestore or one of the libraries it uses. Take a look at /proc//fd while the restore is going on and see if the file descriptor list is growing. If so, it should indicate what files are being opened but not closed. Bill