[OpenAFS] DA file server on linux 1.6.0rc2: assertion failed: Create
John Tang Boyland
boyland@uwm.edu
Wed, 05 Oct 2011 16:43:02 -0500
I've had a problem with the new DA file server. It lost an entire directory
and the file server crashed. The symptom that something was going bad was
% touch 176
touch: cannot create 176: File too large
pabst.cs 297 % fs lq .
Volume Name Quota Used %Used Partition
fa11.cs732 100000 64776 65% 1%
This happened before, the directory was impossible to use.
(That is, one could not create any files in it.)
I created a new directory and abandoned the old directory,
but then a few weeks later, the problem reocurred. In both cases,
the FileLog has entries such as:
Wed Oct 5 16:08:38 2011 ReallyRead(): read failed device 0 inode 7069583278211 errno 5
But this time, when I tried to rename (mv) the directory
which had the problem, the fileserver crashed:
Fatal Rx error: assertion failed: Create(&filedir, "..", NewDirFid) == 0, file: ../viced/afsfileprocs.c, line: 4215
When it came back up, the directory where files could not be created
was empty. (But the directory in the backup volume still had
all the files, fortunately.)
The /vicep* partitions are ext4. Maybe that's the problem?
I know 1.6.0rc2 is old, but it's the latest version available
with the Scientific Linux 6 "yum update". If it's a known bug,
I'll just have to wait. (Or if "yum update openafs-server"
isn't the command I'm supposed to use, let me know.)
Best regards,
John