IJ29337: POLICY, INODE SCANS AND EA LISTING FAILURES

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• GPFS maintains EA (Extended Attribute) registry to
  verify the EA priority. Due to incorrect
  EA registry addition without
   SG format version check, policy and inode scans
  might fail in the mixed node cluster  environment.
  This problem could occur while running policy
   or inode scans in a mixed node environment
  running with 5.0.5.2 , 5.0.5.3 and 5.1.0.0 and other
  old version nodes as the filesystem manager.
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• GPFS maintains EA (Extended Attribute) registry to
  verify the EA priority. Due to incorrect
  EA registry addition without
   SG format version check, policy and inode scans
  might fail in the mixed node cluster  environment.
  This problem could occur while running policy
   or inode scans in a mixed node environment
  running with 5.0.5.2 , 5.0.5.3 and 5.1.0.0 and other
  old version nodes as the filesystem manager.
  

Problem conclusion

• Benefits of the solution:
  Fixed the code to remove incorrect EA registry.
  
  Work around: None
  
  Problem trigger:
  Running policy or inode scans in a mixed node
  cluster environment running with 5.0.5.2 , 5.0.5.3 and
  5.1.0.0 along with older version nodes as the
  filesytsem manager
  
  Symptom: Unexpected results
  
  Platforms affected: All OS environments
  
  Functional Area affected: AFM and FS Core
  
  Customer Impact: Critical
  

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

  IJ29356

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  SPEC SCALE STD

• Fixed component ID

  5737F33AP

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