Re: [Lustre-discuss] renamed directory retains a dentry under its old name?

2009-11-22 Thread Phil Schwan
Hello, my good man! 2009/11/20 Oleg Drokin oleg.dro...@sun.com Yes, I think this does match bug 2969 behavior. We add entry to dcache without lock (not visible in the trace you provided). Then we do rename, then we do some sort of stat on a renamed entry and reobtain the lock. Then we do

Re: [Lustre-discuss] renamed directory retains a dentry under its old name?

2009-11-22 Thread Stuart Midgley
Lustre serves us very very well. As Phil points out, these sort of bugs are not show stoppers for us, we report them to improve the code. We have 30oss's and ~300TB of storage under it. -- Dr Stuart Midgley sdm...@gmail.com On 22/11/2009, at 17:24 , Phil Schwan wrote: Hello, my good

[Lustre-discuss] renamed directory retains a dentry under its old name?

2009-11-19 Thread Phil Schwan
Hello old friends!  I return with a gift, like an almost-forgotten uncle visiting from a faraway land. I have an interesting issue, on 1.6.6: # cat /proc/fs/lustre/version lustre: 1.6.6 kernel: patchless build: 

Re: [Lustre-discuss] renamed directory retains a dentry under its old name?

2009-11-19 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 20:06 +0800, Phil Schwan wrote: Hello old friends! Heya phik. I return with a gift, like an almost-forgotten uncle visiting from a faraway land. Yay! - one task creates a foo.working directory, does all its work inside, then renames it to foo.done - another task

Re: [Lustre-discuss] renamed directory retains a dentry under its old name?

2009-11-19 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 21:09 +0800, Phil Schwan wrote: G'day Brian! Glad to see you've stuck around! :-) It should be, except it isn't. Don't ya just hate those? Your steps are correct, I believe (Stu may correct me), but we also tried that without any luck. Hrm. Must be more subtle

Re: [Lustre-discuss] renamed directory retains a dentry under its old name?

2009-11-19 Thread Oleg Drokin
Hello! On Nov 19, 2009, at 7:06 AM, Phil Schwan wrote: Hello old friends! I return with a gift, like an almost-forgotten uncle visiting from a faraway land. Long time no see! ;) I have an interesting issue, on 1.6.6: # cat /proc/fs/lustre/version lustre: 1.6.6 kernel: patchless build: