[PVFS-users] VFS interface hanging

[Rob Ross]

Hi John,

First thing would be to apply the patch to 1.6.2 that was released some 
time back; have you had a chance to try that?

Thanks,

Rob

On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, John Casu wrote:

> 
> My problem is this:
> I have a 12 server pvfs filesystem, which was working with 2 iod servers per node.
> In order to investigate some instabilities, I reduced the iod's per server
> to 1, and restarted pvfs in the usual way.
> 
> Iod's and pvfsd's are running on all appropriate nodes, and mgr/pvfsd 
> is running on my head node, which is my meta-data server.
> 
> I can mount the filesystem, and df it, but ls doesn't work properly
> and just sits there (I can ctrl-c out of it). pvfs-ping works correctly,
> as do the other pvfs-* commands.
> 
> I suspect what's going is that I have cruft leftover from the previous
> incarnation of the filesystem, and this is causing what aggravation I'm
> getting.  
> 
> Is there any way to manually, or otherwise, clean up the filesystem ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> john c.
> 
> ps.
> 
> I'm using the 2.4.18-27.7.xsmp kernel (RH 7.3), and the 1.6.2 release
> of pvfs, on x86.
> 
> 
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