[Pvfs2-users] goofy permission denied error

Sam Lang slang at mcs.anl.gov
Mon Sep 25 19:50:17 EDT 2006


Hi Bob,

I think I found the bug and have a fix for this, but I just want to  
make sure.  Do you remember the last time you restarted the pvfs2  
servers?  I think this error is caused at server startup on ppc64  
after at least 512 files are created.  If your servers were re- 
started recently (with a populated file system), then I know what's  
wrong.  Otherwise, if they were started once when the file system was  
created and have been running ever since, I've just found a bug  
elsewhere in our code, and I'll need to keep looking for yours.  Let  
me know.

Thanks,

-sam

On Sep 25, 2006, at 1:51 PM, Robert Olson wrote:

> This was built new for 1.5.1, and I've been using it on and off for  
> a few weeks.
>
> --bob
>
> On Sep 25, 2006, at 1:37 PM, Sam Lang wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi Bob,
>>
>> Is this from a new storage space, or had things been working and  
>> then you started getting the permission denied errors?  If its a  
>> storage space that's been around for a while, did you migrate from  
>> 1.3.x or 1.4.0?
>>
>> Based on the logfiles you sent, it doesn't look like a kernel  
>> module problem.  We haven't seen those specific problems with  
>> 1.5.1, but we didn't do much testing of the 1.5.1 release on 64  
>> bit platforms (esp. ppc).  Would it be possible to get access to  
>> that system so that I can do some debugging?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -sam
>>
>> On Sep 25, 2006, at 12:34 PM, Robert Olson wrote:
>>
>>> This is weird. I appear to getting permission denied on every  
>>> other file to be copied from a local filesystem to the PVFS2  
>>> filesystem. This ring a bell with anyone?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> --bob
>>>
>>> olson at bio-ppc-1:/scratch$ cp -r simtab.0917 /disks/pvfs2/olson
>>> cp: cannot create regular file `/disks/pvfs2/olson/simtab.0917/ 
>>> sims.10': Permission denied
>>> cp: cannot create regular file `/disks/pvfs2/olson/simtab.0917/ 
>>> sims.101': Permission denied
>>> cp: cannot create regular file `/disks/pvfs2/olson/simtab.0917/ 
>>> sims.103': Permission denied
>>> cp: cannot create regular file `/disks/pvfs2/olson/simtab.0917/ 
>>> sims.105': Permission denied
>>>
>>>
>>> olson at bio-ppc-1:/scratch$ ls -l /disks/pvfs2/olson/simtab.0917/
>>> total 88044
>>> -rw-r--r--  1 olson seed-users 37994316 Sep 25 17:26 sims.1
>>> -rw-r--r--  1 olson seed-users    30049 Sep 25 17:26 sims.100
>>> -rw-r--r--  1 olson seed-users     7226 Sep 25 17:26 sims.102
>>> -rw-r--r--  1 olson seed-users  1915643 Sep 25 17:26 sims.104
>>> -rw-r--r--  1 olson seed-users 50200576 Sep 25 17:26 sims.106
>>>
>>> olson at bio-ppc-1:/scratch$ for i in simtab.0917/*; do echo $i; / 
>>> vol/pvfs2/bin/pvfs2-cp -t $i /disks/pvfs2/olson/$i; done
>>> simtab.0917/sims.1
>>> Wrote 37994316 bytes in 0.437222 seconds. 82.873696 MB/seconds
>>> simtab.0917/sims.10
>>> open: Permission denied
>>> could not open /disks/pvfs2/olson/simtab.0917/sims.10
>>> Could not open /disks/pvfs2/olson/simtab.0917/sims.10
>>> simtab.0917/sims.100
>>> Wrote 30049 bytes in 0.001754 seconds. 16.339859 MB/seconds
>>> simtab.0917/sims.101
>>> Wrote 18867 bytes in 0.035888 seconds. 0.501365 MB/seconds
>>> simtab.0917/sims.102
>>> Wrote 7226 bytes in 0.001195 seconds. 5.766959 MB/seconds
>>> simtab.0917/sims.103
>>> open: Permission denied
>>> could not open /disks/pvfs2/olson/simtab.0917/sims.103
>>> Could not open /disks/pvfs2/olson/simtab.0917/sims.103
>>> simtab.0917/sims.104
>>> Wrote 1915643 bytes in 0.022985 seconds. 79.482314 MB/seconds
>>> simtab.0917/sims.105
>>> Wrote 113037406 bytes in 3.774026 seconds. 28.563891 MB/seconds
>>> simtab.0917/sims.106
>>> Wrote 177660236 bytes in 5.191931 seconds. 32.633331 MB/seconds
>>> simtab.0917/sims.107
>>> open: Permission denied
>>> could not open /disks/pvfs2/olson/simtab.0917/sims.107
>>> Could not open /disks/pvfs2/olson/simtab.0917/sims.107
>>> simtab.0917/sims.108
>>> Wrote 152382253 bytes in 5.079284 seconds. 28.610931 MB/seconds
>>> simtab.0917/sims.109
>>> open: Permission denied
>>> could not open /disks/pvfs2/olson/simtab.0917/sims.109
>>> Could not open /disks/pvfs2/olson/simtab.0917/sims.109
>>> simtab.0917/sims.11
>>> Wrote 55995114 bytes in 1.893243 seconds. 28.206152 MB/seconds
>>> simtab.0917/sims.110
>>> open: Permission denied
>>> could not open /disks/pvfs2/olson/simtab.0917/sims.110
>>> Could not open /disks/pvfs2/olson/simtab.0917/sims.110
>>> simtab.0917/sims.111
>>> Wrote 85578997 bytes in 2.864490 seconds. 28.491805 MB/seconds
>>> simtab.0917/sims.112
>>> open: Permission denied
>>> could not open /disks/pvfs2/olson/simtab.0917/sims.112
>>> Could not open /disks/pvfs2/olson/simtab.0917/sims.112
>>> simtab.0917/sims.113
>>> Wrote 159349826 bytes in 5.469951 seconds. 27.782303 MB/seconds
>>> simtab.0917/sims.114
>>> open: Permission denied
>>> could not open /disks/pvfs2/olson/simtab.0917/sims.114
>>> Could not open /disks/pvfs2/olson/simtab.0917/sims.114
>>> simtab.0917/sims.115
>>> Wrote 385509 bytes in 0.043475 seconds. 8.456602 MB/seconds
>>> simtab.0917/sims.116
>>> open: Permission denied
>>> could not open /disks/pvfs2/olson/simtab.0917/sims.116
>>> Could not open /disks/pvfs2/olson/simtab.0917/sims.116
>>> simtab.0917/sims.117
>>> Wrote 125580543 bytes in 4.246360 seconds. 28.203670 MB/seconds
>>> simtab.0917/sims.118
>>> open: Permission denied
>>> could not open /disks/pvfs2/olson/simtab.0917/sims.118
>>> Could not open /disks/pvfs2/olson/simtab.0917/sims.118
>>> simtab.0917/sims.119
>>> Wrote 74459114 bytes in 2.527315 seconds. 28.096912 MB/seconds
>>> simtab.0917/sims.12
>>> open: Permission denied
>>> could not open /disks/pvfs2/olson/simtab.0917/sims.12
>>> Could not open /disks/pvfs2/olson/simtab.0917/sims.12
>>> [etc]
>>>
>>>
>>> pvfs-statfs is happy:
>>>
>>> olson at bio-ppc-1:~$ /vol/pvfs2/bin/pvfs2-statfs -m /mnt/pvfs2
>>>
>>> aggregate statistics:
>>> ---------------------------------------
>>>
>>>         fs_id: 1239905522
>>>         total number of servers (meta and I/O): 4
>>>         handles available (meta and I/O):       5365714538
>>>         handles total (meta and I/O):           5368709115
>>>         bytes available:                        1218774892544
>>>         bytes total:                            1495224942592
>>>
>>> NOTE: The aggregate total and available statistics are calculated  
>>> based
>>> on an algorithm that assumes data will be distributed evenly; thus
>>> the free space is equal to the smallest I/O server capacity
>>> multiplied by the number of I/O servers.  If this number seems
>>> unusually small, then check the individual server statistics below
>>> to look for problematic servers.
>>>
>>> meta server statistics:
>>> ---------------------------------------
>>>
>>> server: tcp://bio-ppc-head-4:3334
>>>         RAM bytes total  : 4107878400
>>>         RAM bytes free   : 13307904
>>>         uptime (seconds) : 4045972
>>>         load averages    : 4704 9088 5664
>>>         handles available: 2145227856
>>>         handles total    : 2147483646
>>>         bytes available  : 310944141312
>>>         bytes total      : 373806235648
>>>         mode: serving both metadata and I/O data
>>>
>>>
>>> I/O server statistics:
>>> ---------------------------------------
>>>
>>> server: tcp://bio-ppc-head-4:3334
>>>         RAM bytes total  : 4107878400
>>>         RAM bytes free   : 13307904
>>>         uptime (seconds) : 4045972
>>>         load averages    : 4704 9088 5664
>>>         handles available: 2145227856
>>>         handles total    : 2147483646
>>>         bytes available  : 310944141312
>>>         bytes total      : 373806235648
>>>         mode: serving both metadata and I/O data
>>>
>>> server: tcp://bio-ppc-head-1:3334
>>>         RAM bytes total  : 4107878400
>>>         RAM bytes free   : 2062213120
>>>         uptime (seconds) : 832980
>>>         load averages    : 30624 12352 3872
>>>         handles available: 1073741272
>>>         handles total    : 1073741823
>>>         bytes available  : 307329638400
>>>         bytes total      : 373806235648
>>>         mode: serving only I/O data
>>>
>>> server: tcp://bio-ppc-head-2:3334
>>>         RAM bytes total  : 4107878400
>>>         RAM bytes free   : 12697600
>>>         uptime (seconds) : 4045977
>>>         load averages    : 10592 6720 1792
>>>         handles available: 1073372712
>>>         handles total    : 1073741823
>>>         bytes available  : 304693723136
>>>         bytes total      : 373806235648
>>>         mode: serving only I/O data
>>>
>>> server: tcp://bio-ppc-head-3:3334
>>>         RAM bytes total  : 3578347520
>>>         RAM bytes free   : 12324864
>>>         uptime (seconds) : 4046045
>>>         load averages    : 13056 9376 3136
>>>         handles available: 1073372698
>>>         handles total    : 1073741823
>>>         bytes available  : 309065900032
>>>         bytes total      : 373806235648
>>>         mode: serving only I/O data
>>>
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