[Lustre-discuss] problem reading HDF files on 1.8.5 filesystem

[David Dillow]

On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 16:47 -0400, Christopher Walker wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> We have a user who is trying to post-process HDF files in R.  Her script 
> goes through a number (~2500) of files in a directory, opening and 
> reading the contents.  This usually goes fine, but occasionally the 
> script dies with:

> open("/n/scratch2/moorcroft_lab/nlevine/Moore_sites_final/met/LT_spinup/ms67/analy/s67-E-1628-04-00-000000-g01.h5", 
> O_RDONLY) = 3
> fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=0, ...}) = 0

This thinks it is a zero length file, but I'll bet you see the right
length later.

Perhaps you could test Johann's suggestion from
http://jira.whamcloud.com/browse/LU-274 to see it that helps, and report
the results in Jira?