On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 7:06 PM, Yan, Zheng <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 7:03 AM, Scottix <[email protected]> wrote:
>> ...
>>
>>
>>> The time variation is caused cache coherence. when client has valid
>>> information
>>> in its cache, 'stat' operation will be fast. Otherwise the client need to
>>> send
>>> request to MDS and wait for reply, which will be slow.
>>
>>
>> This sounds like the behavior I had with CephFS giving me question marks.
>> When I had a directory with a large amount of files in it and the first ls
>> -la took a while to populate and ended with some unknown stats. The second
>> time I did an ls -la it ran quick with no question marks. My inquiry was if
>> there is a timeout that could occur? since it has to go ask the mds on a
>> different machine it seems plausible that the full response is not coming
>> back in time or fails to get all stats at some point.
>
> unknown stats shouldn't happen. which kernel are you using? can you reproduce
> this issue with ceph-fuse?

See https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg17445.html
for more context. It's an old kernel and happens on ceph-fuse.
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