BWA 7.00: Indexing fails due to GPFS issue

June 8, 2009 at 4:48 am

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Symptom
Filling, rollup or changerun of BWA indexes fails
Other terms
BIA, BWA, Accelerator, clustered filesystem, GPFS
Reason and Prerequisites
Prerequisite:You run SLES 10 SP2andGPFS 3.2.1-7 or later
Reason:
Due to a programming error in GPFS 3.2.1-7 (or later) writing data to BWA filer may fail. In case the issue happens you will find the following entries in file /var/log/messages:
…
May 27 16:45:37 lu0097 kernel: RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff88530e82>]
<ffffffff88530e82>
{:mmfs:_Z9gpfsWriteP13gpfsVfsData_tP15KernelOperationP9cxi
Node_tiP8cxiUio_tP9MMFSVInfoP10cxiVattr_tSA_P10ext_cred_tii+3186}
May 27 16:45:37 lu0097 kernel:
<ffffffff885203e4>
{:mmfs:_Z8gpfsOpenP13gpfsVfsData_tP9cxiNode_tiiiPP9MMFSVIn
foP10ext_cred_t+1172}
May 27 16:45:37 lu0097 kernel:
<ffffffff884c402e>{:mmfslinux:gpfs_f_write+638}
<ffffffff8016549a>{__pagevec_free+32}
May 27 16:45:37 lu0097 kernel:
<ffffffff884c34d0>{:mmfslinux:gpfs_f_open+0}
<ffffffff80184321>{do_filp_open+42}
…
Solution
Contact your hardware partner to get the fix for that issue.

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