FYI: I just upgraded stat from 2.5 to 3.3 and now we get sane values.

# stat .
  File: "."
  Size: 2048            Blocks: 4          IO Block: 8192   Directory

..Patrick


On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 12:25 -0600, Patrick Walsh wrote:
> > > # stat .
> > >   File: "."
> > >   Size: 2048            Blocks: 4          IO Block:
> > > -4611713506218074112 Directory
> > > Device: ah/10d  Inode: 1352058954  Links: 2
> > 
> > This linkcount states that the directory has no subdirectories. So find
> > will consider everything a file.
> 
> 	How can you tell that?  "Links: 2"?
> 
> > You could do "cfs er .", which should tell venus to send an invalidation
> > call to the kernel. If you then run stat again it should show a
> > linkcount of 1 and the find should work again.
> 
> 	Yes, that is exactly what happened.  But the IO Block remained the
> same.  Actually, it didn't remain the same, but it's still not what you
> would expect.  Here's an excerpt:
> 
> # stat .
>   File: "."
>   Size: 2048            Blocks: 4          IO Block:
> -4611716804752957440 Directory
> Device: ah/10d  Inode: 1352058954  Links: 2
> ...
> # cfs er .
> # stat .
>   File: "."
>   Size: 2048            Blocks: 4          IO Block:
> -4611718454020399104 Directory
> Device: ah/10d  Inode: 1352058954  Links: 1
> 
> 
> 	Here are the values from venus.conf that aren't set to defaults:
> 
> realm=abc
> cacheblocks=3145728
> mapprivate=1
> masquerade_port=2435
> 
> 	And in case it matters, here's server.conf's non-default values from
> one of the servers:
> 
> rvm_log="/vice/RVMLOG"
> rvm_data="/vice/RVMDATA"
> rvm_data_length="524288000"
> ipaddress=x.x.x.x
> rvmtruncate=5
> trace=100
> allow_sha=1
> 
> 	Do you think the strange block size could indicate a problem or cause a
> problem at some point?
> 
> 	Here's some other info, in case it helps:
> 
> # df /coda
> Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> coda                   3145728       464   2937779   1% /coda
> # df /vicepa
> Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda3             40313996   1318908  36947204   4% /vicepa
> 
> 
> 	On second thought, this might not have anything at all to do with coda.
> So don't bother chasing it down.  It's either a problem with stat or
> with our kernel, is my guess:
> 
> # stat /
>   File: "/"
>   Size: 4096            Blocks: 8          IO Block:
> -4611715155485519872 Directory
> 
> 	We're using the latest Redhat AS3 kernel.  We're also using a RAID
> array, in case that has some impact.  Anyway, I think the only problem
> here worth tracking down is why on a cp -r (and maybe other operations)
> the link count isn't being set properly...
> 
> 	Thanks again for your help, Jan.
> 
> ..Patrick
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Patrick Walsh
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