[LU-4380] data corruption when copy a file to a new directory (sles11sp2 only)

• Type: Bug
• Resolution: Cannot Reproduce
• Priority: Critical
• Affects Version/s: Lustre 2.4.1
• Environment: server: centos 2.1.5 server OR centos 2.4.1 server; client: sles11sp2 2.4.1 client; ; Source can be found at github.com/jlan/lustre-nas. The tag for the client is 2.4.1-1nasC.
• Severity: 3
• Assignee: Bob Glossman (Inactive)
• Reporter: Jay Lan (Inactive)

Description

Users reported a data corruption problem. We have a test script to reproduce the problem.

When run in a Lustre file system with a sles11sp2 host as the remote host, the script fails (sum reports 00000). It works if the remote host is running sles11sp1 or CentOS.

— cut here for test5.sh —
#!/bin/sh

host=${1:-endeavour2}
rm -fr zz hosts
cp /etc/hosts hosts
#fsync hosts
ssh $host "cd $PWD && mkdir -p zz && cp hosts zz/"
sum hosts zz/hosts
— cut here —

Good result:
./test5.sh r301i0n0
61609 41 hosts
61609 41 zz/hosts

Bad result:
./test5.sh r401i0n2
61609 41 hosts
00000 41 zz/hosts

Notes:

• If the copied file is small enough (e.g., /etc/motd), the script succeeds.
• If you uncomment the fsync, the script succeeds.
• When it fails, stat reports no blocks have been allocated to the zz/hosts file:

$ stat zz/hosts
File: `zz/hosts'
Size: 41820 Blocks: 0 IO Block: 2097152 regular file
Device: 914ef3a8h/2437870504d Inode: 163153538715835056 Links: 1
Access: (0644/rw-rr-) Uid: (10491/dtalcott) Gid: ( 1179/ cstaff)
Access: 2013-12-12 09:24:46.000000000 -0800
Modify: 2013-12-12 09:24:46.000000000 -0800
Change: 2013-12-12 09:24:46.000000000 -0800

• If you run in an NFS file system, the script usually succeeds, but sometimes reports a no such file error on the sum of zz/hosts. After a few seconds, though, the file appears, with the correct sum. (Typical NFS behavior.)
• Acts the same on nbp7 and nbp8.

Issue Links

• duplicates: LU-3219 FIEMAP does not sync data or return cached pages

Comments

[Peter Jones]

ok - thanks Jay!

[Jay Lan (Inactive)]

We tested the 2.1.5 server with LU-3219 patch and the problem went away.

Since somehow we are no longer able to reproduce the problem with our 2.4.0
server (yes, LU-3219 was included in 2.4.0 release), we can close this ticket. Thanks for your help!

[Niu Yawei (Inactive)]

00000010:00000001:0.0:1389375898.914586:0:15540:0:(ost_handler.c:1261:ost_get_info()) Process leaving (rc=0 : 0 : 0)

Mahmoud, looks your OST is running on 2.1.5 and it doesn't have the patch 58444c4e9bc58e192f0bc0c163a5d51d42ba4255 (LU-3219) applied, so data corruption is expected.

[Mahmoud Hanafi]

I have gathered clean debug logs from localclient, remoteclient and oss. The files are to large to attach here. I have uploaded it to your ftp site 'ftp://ftp.whamcloud.com/uploads'

The filename is "LU_4380.debug.tgz"

---

$ tar tzvf LU_4380.debug.tgz
rw-rr- root/root 215807901 2014-01-10 09:45 lu-4380.out.LOCALHOST
rw-rr- root/root 1198791 2014-01-10 09:45 lu-4380.out.OSS
rw-rr- root/root 135327548 2014-01-10 09:45 lu-4380.out.REMOTEHOST

---

[Niu Yawei (Inactive)]

Which of the above could have changed the outcome?

All the patches seems not related to this problem, and I don't see why mds upgrading can change the outcome (I think this is a problem related only to client and OST). Could you verify the clients and OSS version? Do they all have the patch 58444c4e9bc58e192f0bc0c163a5d51d42ba4255 (LU-3219)?

Also, do you expect it to work correctly when running 2.4.1 client against 2.1.5 server? I am still able to reproduce against 2.1.5 server.

Does the 2.1.5 server have the patch 58444c4e9bc58e192f0bc0c163a5d51d42ba4255 applied?

[Jay Lan (Inactive)]

I was wrong in saying that the reproducer can be run against 2.4.1 centos server. It actually was 2.4.0 server with patches. The branch was nas-2.4.0-1 and tag was 2.4.0-3nasS.

We recently updated the 2.4.0 mds (for testing LU-4403). Well, I am not able to reproduce the problem any more. The patches I picked up were:
LU-4179 mdt: skip open lock enqueue during resent
LU-3992 libcfs: Fix NUMA emulated mode
LU-4139 quota: improve write performance when over softlimit
LU-4336 quota: improper assert in osc_quota_chkdq()
LU-4403 mds: extra lock during resend lock lookup
LU-4028 quota: improve lfs quota output

Which of the above could have changed the outcome?

Also, do you expect it to work correctly when running 2.4.1 client against 2.1.5 server? I am still able to reproduce against 2.1.5 server.

[Niu Yawei (Inactive)]

I had a problem that I was not able to stop debug_daemon until good data were flushed out of the debug file at the OST side. You need to tell me how to address that problem so that I can produce OST log for you.

You can try to execute 'lctl clear' on OSS to clear the debug buffer before testing.