Hi Angel,

The issues you describe below look very similar to the issues we saw when
using the stock db4 package. So, I think it should help. At our site, we
installed the latest version of BDB in a non-standard location (i.e.
/usr/local/db4.8) and did not replace the version currently installed due to
the potential for broken dependencies. We then re-compiled OrangeFS against
the new BDB version using --with-db=/usr/local/db4.8 for configure. Note
that you only need the updated version of BDB on hosts running the server
processes. The client-side does not link against BDB.

Hope that helps,
Michael

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Angel de Vicente <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I sent this to the Rocks mailing list, but nobody there was able to give me
> an answer. Do you know if this could solve these problems? Current BDB
> version is db4-4.3.29-10.el5_5.2. I was hoping to upgrade, perhaps to
> 4.8.30. Any comments? Should I then recompile PVFS?
>
> Cheers,
> Ángel de Vicente
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Bad File Entries in PVFS2... is it safe to upgrade Berkeley DB in
> Rocks 5.4?
> Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 15:01:53 +0000
> From: Angel de Vicente <[email protected]>
> To: Discussion of Rocks Clusters <[email protected]>
>
> Hi,
>
> after intensive use of the PVFS2 system in our cluster, we have many
> files like:
>
> [callende@diodo hyd0022.bug]$ ls -lt dir1258/
> total 0
> ?--------- ? ? ? ?            ? log2
> [callende@diodo hyd0022.bug]$
>
> These files are really stubborn and there doesn't seem to be any easy
> way of removing them, since apparently they don't actually exist. This
> is not a new problem with PVFS2 (see
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg02878.html),
>
> and so far the only suggestion that I've seen to improve the situation
> is to upgrade Berkeley DB
> (
> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg02920.html
> ).
>
> Can I upgrade Berkeley DB without breaking anything else in the cluster.
> Will I have to recompile PVFS2? Has anyone tried this before?
>
> Cheers,
> Ángel de Vicente
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