From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763487AbYEESiO (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2008 14:38:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759437AbYEES32 (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2008 14:29:28 -0400 Received: from 2605ds1-ynoe.1.fullrate.dk ([90.184.12.24]:35644 "EHLO shrek.krogh.cc" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761386AbYEES3W (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2008 14:29:22 -0400 Message-ID: <481F51F0.4000408@krogh.cc> Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 20:29:04 +0200 From: Jesper Krogh User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080227) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ray Lee CC: "Randy.Dunlap" , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Many open/close on same files yeilds "No such file or directory". References: <4819E316.7000607@krogh.cc> <20080501223938.921f7cd2.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <481ACEC4.2040205@krogh.cc> <481B3115.30705@krogh.cc> <2c0942db0805020847q2fdc0480m3eb892bf2bd0b3a@mail.gmail.com> <481B70F9.6000201@krogh.cc> <481F4728.9050100@krogh.cc> <481F49C0.4080001@krogh.cc> <2c0942db0805051121r47cc97d2jb71cc8ab9eaa7981@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2c0942db0805051121r47cc97d2jb71cc8ab9eaa7981@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ray Lee wrote: > On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 10:54 AM, 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. > > I'd been meaning to ask what the topology was. External, eh? Are you > sure the enclosure, cabling, and card/connectors are all good? Have > you tried swapping out cables? It is new SCSI-controller, new cable and new terminator put onto it. But (just enlighten me), if I had problems at this level I'd expect the serverlog to be full of SCSI/FS-related errors and not just a single syscall, that doesn't even touch the array due to caching, to be failing. Jesper -- Jesper