You might try running strace on the client application, and seeing what
file system call results in the error.

Thanks,
Sam Sampson
Omnibond Systems



On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Becky Ligon <[email protected]> wrote:

> Raul:
>
> Can you give me the exact error message that you are seeing?  Is the error
> message showing up in /var/log/messages, pvfs2-client.log,
> pvfs2-server.log, or stdout from your program?
>
> Also, are you linking the application with the pvfs2 libraries or just
> using the kernel module?
>
> Which version of OrangeFS are you using?
>
> Becky
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 12:26 PM, Rob Latham <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 03/10/2014 08:45 AM, Kist wrote:
>>
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> I'm testing OrangeFS (pvfs2) in a small virtual cluster before we try it
>>> on a big cluster for seismic processing.
>>> I am running 8 CentOS with 2.6 kernel. All of them are servers (io) and
>>> clients and the headnode is the metadata server.
>>>
>>> So far it's the best DFS I found and our standalone tools are working
>>> alright on it but when I try to use our libraries with a different
>>> client (as a plugin in another tool) I get a "Function not implemented"
>>> error.
>>>
>>> I have no access to the source code of the client I'm using and, now,
>>> I'm looking for the pvfs2 source code for "PVFS_ENOSYS" ("Function not
>>> implemented") references but it seems a little bit more work than it
>>> should be.
>>>
>>> So, I would like to know if you guys have some ideas of what could it be
>>> (lock?) or some magic flag I can set to check what is this.
>>>
>>
>> If you are using the kernel interface, the one routine we've explicitly
>> disabled is fcntl() with the F_SETLKW and related flags.
>>
>> slang did this years and years ago
>>
>> http://www.orangefs.org/fisheye/orangefs/changelog/orangefs?cs=6613
>>
>> The other thing to look at is certain kinds of mmap operations, but I
>> never, even at my peak, remembered all the various details about that one...
>>
>> ==rob
>>
>> --
>> Rob Latham
>> Mathematics and Computer Science Division
>> Argonne National Lab, IL USA
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>
>
>
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> Becky Ligon
> OrangeFS Support and Development
> Omnibond Systems
> Anderson, South Carolina
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