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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt">We encountered a similar issue after setting PFL and all OSTs ended up with a file too large error: (Lustre 2.15.5)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt">here is how we reproduced the error:<br>
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[faaland1@mutt9 pfltest] $mkdir nopfl pfl-one pfl-two<br>
[faaland1@mutt9 pfltest] $lfs setstripe -E 256G -c2 -S 16M -E -1 -c -1 pfl-two<br>
[faaland1@mutt9 pfltest] $lfs setstripe -E -1 -c -1 pfl-one<br>
[faaland1@mutt9 pfltest] $lfs setstripe -c -1 -S 16M nopfl<br>
[faaland1@mutt9 pfltest] $pwd<br>
/p/lflood/faaland1/test/pfltest<br>
[faaland1@mutt9 pfltest] $lfs check servers .<br>
lflood-OST0000-osc-ff1a28194597d000 active.<br>
lflood-OST0001-osc-ff1a28194597d000 active.<br>
lflood-OST0002-osc-ff1a28194597d000 active.<br>
lflood-OST0003-osc-ff1a28194597d000 active.<br>
lflood-MDT0000-mdc-ff1a28194597d000 active.<br>
lflood-MDT0001-mdc-ff1a28194597d000 active.<br>
lflood-MDT0002-mdc-ff1a28194597d000 active.<br>
lflood-MDT0003-mdc-ff1a28194597d000 active.<br>
MGC172.19.1.133@o2ib100 active.<br>
[faaland1@mutt9 pfltest] $for xx in *; do echo $xx; dd if=/dev/zero bs=1 seek=$((8*2))T of=${xx}/16TB count=1; echo; done 2>&1<br>
nopfl<br>
1+0 records in<br>
1+0 records out<br>
1 byte copied, 0.0006174 s, 1.6 kB/s<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt">pfl-one<br>
1+0 records in<br>
1+0 records out<br>
1 byte copied, 0.000456144 s, 2.2 kB/s<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt">pfl-two<br>
dd: failed to truncate to 17592186044416 bytes in output file 'pfl-two/16TB': File too large<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt">If one of the watcher could confirm/review the current fix for this ticket really addresses the error we encountered.
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt">thanks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">-eric<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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