[Ocfs2-devel] error message in log: ocfs2_reflink_ioctl:4431 ERROR: status = -17

[Wengang Wang]

> On Feb 24, 2021, at 1:11 AM, Lentes, Bernd <bernd.lentes at helmholtz-muenchen.de> wrote:
> 
> 
> ----- On Feb 23, 2021, at 11:24 PM, Wengang Wang wen.gang.wang at oracle.com wrote:
> 
>> #define EEXIST 17 /* File exists */
> 
>> You may already have the file created from the other node.
> 
>> wengang
> 
> 
> Hi Wengang,
> 
> thanks for your help.
> 
> The reflink is created via:
> reflink -fv /path/to/domain.raw /mnt/ocfs2/reflink
> 
> Of course this file exists already because the skript ran also one day before.
> But from which node the previous one was created is unpredictable, it might be the same
> but also the other one.
> 
> Is the message severe or don't i have to bother about it ?
> 

OCFS2 is a shared-storage cluster FS.  For the reflinks, you need and should create them only from one of the nodes. Don’t do duplicated work (reflink) on other nodes.

thanks,
wengang


> Thanks.
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