Re: Many open/close on same files yeilds "No such file or directory".

[Jesper Krogh]

Ray Lee wrote:
> On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Jesper Krogh <jesper@xxxxxxxx> 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
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