Benjamin:

Thanks for the extra information.  I have added it to our tracking system.

Becky
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Becky Ligon
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> On Wednesday, June 08, 2011 07:33:45 Benjamin Severs wrote:
>> On Wednesday, June 08, 2011 06:21:45 AM Michael Moore wrote:
>> > Hi Benjamin,
>> >
>> > I don't have a quick fix, I don't know if others have seen this kind
>> of
>> > issue before. I've created a ticket in Trac for it:
>> > https://www.orangefs.org/trac/orangefs/ticket/34
>> >
>> > I'm planning on just copying your setup to recreate the problem.
>> Anything
>> > special about the contents of the 10GB file or just urandom type data?
>> >
>> > Thanks for letting us know about this!
>> >
>> > Michael
>>
>> There was nothing special about the file.  My file was just a repeating
>> sequence of characters (ex. 200 'A's, followed by 200 'B's, and so on).
>>
>> - Benjamin Severs
>
> More information...
>
> I believe this issue is caused by some race condition among the directio
> threads.  From my testing, it appears that the corruption stops (or at
> least
> hasn't shown up in my testing) if I either switch to using the alt-aio
> trove
> method or if I reduce the number of directio threads to 1.
>
> Hope this is useful.
>
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