[LU-12209] cannot create stripe dir: Stale file handle

• Type: Bug
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Priority: Critical
• Affects Version/s: Lustre 2.10.7
• Environment: CentOS 7.6, servers 2.10.7, clients 2.12 or 2.10
• Severity: 3
• Assignee: Lai Siyao
• Reporter: Stephane Thiell

Description

I'm facing a new issue on Oak (2.10.7 servers), tried with both 2.10 and 2.12 clients:

As root:

# cd /oak/stanford/groups/
# lfs mkdir -i 1 caiwei
lfs mkdir: dirstripe error on 'caiwei': Stale file handle
lfs setdirstripe: cannot create stripe dir 'caiwei': Stale file handle

# lfs getdirstripe .
lmv_stripe_count: 0 lmv_stripe_offset: 0 lmv_hash_type: none

does that ring a bell? Oak is only using DNE v1 with statically striped directories. Never seen that before 2.10.7 (we recently upgraded Oak).

a basic lctl dk doesn't show anything on the MDS but I may have to enable specific debug flags to see more. No other traces found so far.

Tried with 2.10 and 2.12 clients, with or without idmap.

Thanks!

Issue Links

• duplicates: LU-11418 hung threads on MDT and MDT won't umount

Comments

[Peter Jones]

Stephane

You are correct. Yet another illustration as to why it is confusing to having multiple patches tracked under the same Jira ticket spanning release boundaries

Peter

[Stephane Thiell]

Peter, this patch (https://review.whamcloud.com/#/c/33401/ - LU-11418 llog: refresh remote llog upon -ESTALE) is already available in 2.12.0:

 

commit 71f409c9b31b90fa432f1f46ad4e612fb65c7fcc
Author: Lai Siyao <[e-mail]>
Date:   Wed Oct 17 13:29:53 2018 +0800

    LU-11418 llog: refresh remote llog upon -ESTALE

But it's not included in 2.10.7 (that we're running on our Oak servers).

[Peter Jones]

Nice! Thanks all. sthiell note that this fix is included in the upcoming 2.12.1

[Stephane Thiell]

Hi Lai,

We restarted the servers with the patch this morning and the problem is now gone. Thanks!

[Lai Siyao]

This looks to be the same issue which was fixed by https://review.whamcloud.com/#/c/33401/, can you apply this patch on all MDS's and try again?

[Stephane Thiell]

Thanks Patrick for this analysis. I see that obj->opo_stale = 1; only in osp_invalidate()...

Because it's not impacting production, but just new group creation, we won't failover the MDT today (new groups can wait a bit ). We have some interactive jobs running. But I'll try to find a good time during the weekend to do so. Let me know if you want me to grab more debug info before then.

[Patrick Farrell (Inactive)]

Stephane,

Thanks for the more detailed logs.

Here's the source of that ESTALE:

00000040:00000001:18.0:1555692294.403870:0:22597:0:(llog_osd.c:322:llog_osd_declare_write_rec()) Process entered
00000040:00000001:18.0:1555692294.403870:0:22597:0:(llog_osd.c:340:llog_osd_declare_write_rec()) Process leaving (rc=18446744073709551500 : -116 : ffffffffffffff8c)
00000040:00000001:18.0:1555692294.403871:0:22597:0:(llog.c:960:llog_declare_write_rec()) Process leaving (rc=18446744073709551500 : -116 : ffffffffffffff8c)
00000040:00000001:18.0:1555692294.403871:0:22597:0:(llog_cat.c:141:llog_cat_new_log()) Process leaving via out (rc=18446744073709551500 : -116 : 0xffffffffffffff8c) 

Looks to be out of osp_md_declare_write:

         if (dt2osp_obj(dt)->opo_stale)
                return -ESTALE;

But I'm not sure of much more.  I'm going to ask Lai to take a look at this - It's in the DNE area, as you noted.

 

As for what would fix this...  A failover /failbackof MDT1 might do the trick.  It kind of looks like there's confusion over the state of an object in memory, and I think that might clear it up.

[Stephane Thiell]

This is done.
 
Command issued on client sh-101-60 (10.9.101.60@o2ib4) running 2.12 was:

[root@sh-101-60 ruthm]# lctl clear
[root@sh-101-60 ruthm]# lfs mkdir -i 1 .testdir_mdt1
lfs mkdir: dirstripe error on '.testdir_mdt1': Stale file handle
lfs setdirstripe: cannot create stripe dir '.testdir_mdt1': Stale file handle

Nothing else was running on this client.

Client logs attached as sh-101-60.dk.gz

MDT0 and 1 dk logs attached as oak-md1-s2-MDT0.dk.gz and oak-md1-s1-MDT1.dk.gz

[Stephane Thiell]

Hi Patrick,

Ok, I will try (should be in an hour, I'm on my way to the office). But it looks like it is repeatable but only if doing lfs mkdir -i 1 in a parent directory striped on MDT0. See below.

Creating a directory on MDT0 in a parent dir in MDT1 does work:

[root@oak-rbh01 giocomo]# lfs getdirstripe .
lmv_stripe_count: 0 lmv_stripe_offset: 1 lmv_hash_type: none

[root@oak-rbh01 giocomo]# lfs mkdir -i 0 .testdir_mdt0
[root@oak-rbh01 giocomo]# lfs getdirstripe .testdir_mdt0
lmv_stripe_count: 0 lmv_stripe_offset: 0 lmv_hash_type: none
[root@oak-rbh01 giocomo]# rmdir .testdir_mdt0

But not the other way around:

[root@oak-rbh01 giocomo]# cd ../ruthm
[root@oak-rbh01 ruthm]# lfs getdirstripe .
lmv_stripe_count: 0 lmv_stripe_offset: 0 lmv_hash_type: none
[root@oak-rbh01 ruthm]# lfs mkdir -i 0 .testdir_mdt0
[root@oak-rbh01 ruthm]# 
[root@oak-rbh01 ruthm]# lfs mkdir -i 1 .testdir_mdt1
error on LL_IOC_LMV_SETSTRIPE '.testdir_mdt1' (3): Stale file handle
error: mkdir: create stripe dir '.testdir_mdt1' failed

[Patrick Farrell (Inactive)]

If it is this repeatable, can you get -1 debug on the client and the server?  I know that may be a pain server side, but if possible it would be great.