[Ocfs-users] OCFS and removing directories

Wim Coekaerts wim.coekaerts at oracle.com
Wed Feb 4 11:11:35 CST 2004


rigth - what you could do is get emc to fix the performance issues :)
when yo urun without you can verify the differences (again, look at
actual database io throughput) and if they re big, they have to handle
it

we ve had a large number of complaints and powerpath is binary only we
can't fix it on our end as we don'tdo anything wrong in our stack

On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 01:55:49PM -0500, Paul Anderson wrote:
> We are using PowerPath 3.03.  Someone suggested running without the PowerPath which is not an optional as it would void our support contract.
> 
> Paul
> 
>  -----Original Message-----
> From: 	Jeremy Schneider [mailto:jer1887 at asugroup.com] 
> Sent:	Wednesday, February 04, 2004 12:32 PM
> To:	ocfs-users at oss.oracle.com; Paul Anderson
> Subject:	Re: [Ocfs-users] OCFS and removing directories
> 
> We have an identical configuration and have had exactly the same
> problems.  (Both slowness and the rmdir error.)  We're still working on
> it.  Just out of curiousity, are you using Powerpath?
> 
> Jeremy Schneider
> 
> 
> >>> "Paul Anderson" <Paul.Anderson at priorityhealthcare.com> 02/04/2004
> 12:04:26 PM >>>
> We are running Linux AS 2.1 .27 enterprise on an EMC CX400 SAN with
> ocfs version enterprise 1.0.9-12.  After formatting the partitions the
> response from the filesystem is very slow during either read or writes. 
> Even worse, while we can create a directory, we are unable to delete the
> directory after it has been created.  Every time any directory is
> attempted to be removed with rmdir we get a "rmdir: 'directory name':
> Directory not empty" even though there has never been a write of any
> data to that directory.  I am just wondering if anyone else has had this
> experience and even better, has found a solution.
> 
> Paul Anderson
> 
> "Reports that say something hasn't happened are always interesting to
> me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know
> we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know
> there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown
> unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know." 
> 
> 
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