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Bug 75621 [email protected] 1 participant 4 messages May 6, 2014 – May 20, 2014

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https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75621

            Bug ID: 75621
           Summary: Permission denied trying to touch a file; happens
                    randomly; both ext3 and GPFS
           Product: File System
           Version: 2.5
    Kernel Version: 3.0.13-0.27
          Hardware: x86-64
                OS: Linux
              Tree: Mainline
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P1
         Component: ext3
          Assignee: [email protected]
          Reporter: [email protected]
        Regression: No

Hi,

I am running a benchmark against DB2 in my cluster with several ext3 (SSD) and GPFS file systems. After running the benchmark for around two days I noticed that one of the nodes rebooted and that was due to an error touching a file. The file was being touched by one of the HA monitors of Tivoli System Automation.

I immediately tried to reproduce the error by touching the file again manually. I touched the file a few times successfully, then out of the blue I got a "Permission denied" error. Right after that I kept touching the file and got no error message.

CPU utilization and I/O utilization were NOT at their peaks.

This error keeps happening randomly and therefore it is difficult to reproduce. It has happened both on a GPFS file system and an ext3 file system. Also I don't have much information on the internals of this problem.

Do you have suggestions on how to instrument/debug/monitor the error so that I can move on with the investigation and bring more info to this bug report?

Thanks

Phil

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[Bug 75621] Permission denied trying to touch a file; happens randomly; both ext3 and GPFS

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75621

Alan <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Alan <[email protected]> ---
Can you reproduce this on an upstream Linux system without GPFS, or does it need GPFS added ?

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[Bug 75621] Permission denied trying to touch a file; happens randomly; both ext3 and GPFS

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--- Comment #2 from plvbr <[email protected]> ---
I couldn't reproduce it ever again. I reproduced it two or three times then it never happened. But as I said it happens on an ext3 system as well. Not sure if it would still happen on ext3 if I didn't have GPFS compiled.

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[Bug 75621] Permission denied trying to touch a file; happens randomly; both ext3 and GPFS

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Alan <[email protected]> changed:

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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |UNREPRODUCIBLE

--- Comment #3 from Alan <[email protected]> ---
Thanks - given it was with 3rd party stuff loaded and not reproducible I'm not sure there is anything more we can do

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