[Lustre-discuss] Permission denied error when mv files

[Andreas Dilger]

On Mar 05, 2009  20:01 -0500, Aaron Everett wrote:
> We are seeing a reproducible error if we try to mv a file from /tmp to
> the lustre filesystem. If we cp the same file, there is no error.
> 
> [aeverett at rdlogin02 ~]$ touch /tmp/ae.test
> 
> [aeverett at rdlogin02 ~]$ mv /tmp/ae.test /lustre/work/aeverett/ae.file
> 
> mv: cannot create regular file `/lustre/work/aeverett/ae.file':
> Permission denied

Run strace on the "mv" and see what syscall is returning this error.

> [aeverett at rdlogin02 ~]$ cp /tmp/ae.test /lustre/work/aeverett/ae.file
> 
> [aeverett at rdlogin02 ~]$ ls -al /lustre/work/aeverett/ae.file 
> 
> -rw-r--r--  1 aeverett users 0 Mar  5 19:57
> /lustre/work/aeverett/ae.file


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