problem with advfs and a particular IO pattern

From: Steve Feehan (sfeehan_at_sbb.uvm.edu)
Date: 11/05/04

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    Hello. One of my users has a program that writes fixed
    length records at random locations in a file. The original
    program is Fortran, so I wrote a C program (I don't grok
    Fortran, and my C is not much better) to reproduce the error:

      http://sbb.uvm.edu/~sfeehan/record.c

    When the record length is > 640 bytes, after a few hundred
    writes he get's an IO error.

    This problem only happens on local AdvFS file systems. It is
    is not limited to a particular device (the system has several
    internal disks and also connected to a MA8000 SAN) and
    does not occur on NFS mounted file systems.

    The program runs fine on other Tru64 systems, on both local
    and NFS file systems EXCEPT if the NFS file system is exported
    from the problematic host. Make sense?

    Any thoughts or suggestions? Thanks!

    -- 
    Steve Feehan
    

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