[LU-11984] Intermittent file create or rm fail with EINVAL

Duplicate — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 16:29:31 +0000

mdtest intermittently fails and reports EINVAL error when trying to create or remove a file.

mdtest-1.8.3 was launched with 1024 total task(s) on 64 nodes
Command line used: /g/g0/faaland1/projects/mdtest/mdtest/mdtest -d /p/lquake/faaland1/lustre-212-reconnects -n 1024 -F -u -v
Path: /p/lquake/faaland1                                                                                                    
FS: 1867.3 TiB   Used FS: 34.2%   Inodes: 765.8 Mi   Used Inodes: 57.1%                                                     
1024 tasks, 1048576 files

 Operation               Duration              Rate
   ---------               --------              ----
 * iteration 1 02/20/2019 13:37:43 *                 
   Tree creation     :      0.076 sec,     13.191 ops/sec

02/20/2019 13:39:00: Process 158(opal119): FAILED in create_remove_items_helper, unable to unlink file file.mdtest.158.223 (cwd=/p/lquake/faaland1/lustre-212-reconnects/#test-dir.0/mdtest_tree.158.0): Invalid argument                                                                         
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MPI_ABORT was invoked on rank 158 in communicator MPI_COMM_WORLD                                                                                 with errorcode 1.

Seen with:
no DoM
no PFL
16 MDTs in the file system, but directory mdtest is using is not striped.
64 nodes x 16 ppn

Whamcloud Community JIRA

[LU-11984] Intermittent file create or rm fail with EINVAL