Turns out this was nothing to do with ASU or the client. There was a problem
with the advfs file domain upon which the shares sit. Any attempt to write
to the filesystem
generated an I/O error. Eg "vi somefile" comes back with "I/O Error [Warning
- somefile is incomplete]". I ran verify on the domain and found no
problems. I restarted the system in it's entirety. There's nothing apparent
in messages. Hwmgr/scu indicates the disks are all happily visible. Analyze
has a couple of tape related CAM events (which I know are provoked by
Networker) and a "simple_lock: time limit exceeded" which posts in the
archive suggest is probably related to the tape events.
This particular file domain consisted of 5 disks. 4 are Storageworks 36Gb
units in the internal shelf with an additional IBM DRHS36V on another bus
added in to make up the space.
On a whim I removed the IBM drive from the domain and everything came back
to life.
This solved one problem but now I have to find another 36Gb worth of space
from somewhere. There's another IBM drive in another file domain which works
ok. It may be there's a problem splitting the domain across the buses. I'll
post a followup if I ever identify exactly what the problem is.
Cheers
Joe
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fletcher, Joe
> Sent: 3 January 2002 17:26
> To: Tru64-Unix-Managers (E-mail)
> Subject: Max share size?
>
> Hi,
>
> Happy New Year to all.
>
> This relates to ASU 5 eco2 running on an ES40 with Tru64 5.1 pk1. I have a
> user whose personal share data volume has exceeded 140Gb. The share now
> appears write locked.
> The same user can write to other shares with no problems. I've tried
> deleting and recreating the share (you never know) but no joy. I'm
> wondering if this is a limitation either in ASU or possibly in the client
> which is NT4 SP6. Note that other users whose shares reside in the same
> filesystem (177Gb RAID 5, advfs formatted) have no problems.
>
> Can't see anything obvious in the release notes or SPD and the LANWORKS
> list hasn't given any useful pointers so far.
>
> Any ideas anyone?
>
> TIA
>
>
> Joe Fletcher
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