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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">We are having an intermittent issue with our ocfs2 file</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">system</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Oracle Linux Server release 5.6</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">2.6.32-200.13.1.el5uek</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">ocfs2 1.6.3</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">After deleting a</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">large</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> amount of data (~100G) we notice</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">d</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> the ocfs2 file</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">system go</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">“</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">offline</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">”</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> for a few</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">minutes</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> at different</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">times throughout the day. By</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">“</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">offline</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">”</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> I mean it is not accessible to the server, through samba, or through nfs mounts.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> After about 5 minutes it is back online. After a time, it is different each day, it will happen again. There is no pattern to the</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">“</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">offline</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">”</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> status and it is not predictable.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">If we run an fsck.ocfs2</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">-f</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">on the file system it seems to clear the issue</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> (at least we have run for 1 full week without the issue returning)</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">We noticed it again after deleting ~125G of data (1.5Million files). After running fsck.ocfs2 the system</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">stabilized</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Has anyone else seen this</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">or have experience with it?</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN></P>
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