Re[3]: [PVFS-users] Re: ROMIO on PVFS

[Rob Ross]

On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Lei@ICS wrote:

> Hi Rob,
> 
> Thanks! I am looking forward to your now patch.
> 
> I might have found another glitch in the version
> that we have. From my Fortran code I dump out
> a large file (~2.6GB) to PVFS (Fortran open()
> or MPI_FILE_OPEN()): 960211.slc, the strange
> thing is:
> 
> ls -l *.slc
> ls: No match.
> 
> but,
> 
> ls -l 960211.slc
> -rw-------   1 pan   hpcc-gue 2567782400 Jan 16 11:54 960211.slc
> 
> My program is a set of Fortran exe's chained with
> Perl scripts. The Perl script cannot find this file
> even if it exists, therefore the execution halts.

Is this all on the same node?

Does the file show up in just "ls -l"?

Is it visible on other nodes?

What "ls" are you using?  Is it built into your shell?

Could you send an strace of both the failing and successful commands?

> If you need more info about this, please let me know.
> But I would like to see this problem goes away
> with your new patch.

Not likely :).  Maybe the next one...

Thanks,

Rob