[Pvfs2-users] NFS trouble : solved (mostly)

[Rob Ross]

Hi,

Thanks for getting back to us! Sounds like we're close.

There is no 2^14 limit on # of files in a directory. This is some  
other issue.

Rob

On Nov 30, 2007, at 11:27 AM, Emmanuel Florac wrote:

>
> Hello, back at last! I've made quite extensive testing of NFS running
> atop PVFS2.7.0pre1 patched with the "nfs-pvfs2-bufmap.patch".
> I've tried to apply this patch to 2.7.0 release, unfortunately
> automatic patching doesn't work, I tried correcting the structs names
> by hand but... Well, I'll see that later on next week.
>
> The setup is very simple : two machines in a PVFS2 cluster, both
> client, server and metadata server. both mount the pvfs2 fs and export
> it thru NFS.
> Other systems on the network (1Ge) mount the NFS exports from  
> either of
> the servers simultaneously.
>
> So  now the good  news : that works! No more crashes, no more kernel
> warnings, no more failed writes. That's great.
> Bad news : running bonnie++ on the nfs share, "stat sequential files"
> failed : stat 16384 files but found only 16383.
> I don't know if this is a pre-release bug, or something else : can I
> have more than 2^14 files in the same directory or is this some sort
> of limitation?
>
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> Emmanuel Florac     |   Intellique
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