bonnie++ aborts on NFS volume

[Heiko Wundram (Beenic)]

On Tuesday 17 July 2007 08:09:48 Nico -telmich- Schottelius wrote:
> Anyone an idea why it aborts and how to fix?

An idea why it aborts _could_ be the fact that the Linux (kernel) NFS-server 
(there's also a userland NFS server, but that's not widely used, so I presume 
this isn't the case for you) doesn't unlink files that are unlinked from 
remote immediately, but moves them to a temporary (.nfs<someid>) name before 
finally truly unlinking them in case the file is still referenced by some NFS 
handle (i.e., opened at the remote end), thus causing the directory to not be 
empty, even though all files in it have actually been unlinked from the 
remote end.

I don't know whether some performance/caching issues cause this, but as the 
temporary (seemingly) disappeared when bonnie++ was closed (and thus all file 
descriptors of bonnie among with any cache the OS kept freed), I'd guess in 
this direction.

Again, this is just a wild guess, and I've never had problems running bonnie++ 
on a Linux Kernel-NFS-server exported filesystem, but from Linux NFS-clients, 
that is, which might (or rather, will probably) behave differently.

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