[Lustre-discuss] files/directories are temporarily unavailable on patchless clients

[Andreas Dilger]

On Jan 21, 2008  18:55 +0100, Harald van Pee wrote:
> The directory is just not there! Directory or file not found.
>
> in my opinion there is no error message on the clients which is directly
> related to the problem on our node0010 today I have seen this problem a
> several time. Mostly the directory is not seen! Probably all of the other
> directories can be accessed at the same time.
>
> and here all lustre related messages from the last days (others are mostly
> timestamps!)
>
>
>
> Jan 17 07:41:16 node0010 kernel: Lustre: 5723:0:
> (namei.c:235:ll_mdc_blocking_ast()) More than 1 alias dir 133798800 alias

A quick search in bugzilla for this error message shows bug 12123,
which is fixed in the 1.6.1 release, and also has a patch.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.