Error while editing file: E667: Fsync failed

Bijish · 06-16-2014, 02:25 AM

Hello All,

We have a shared drive mounted on our Linux machine using NFSv4. But we are not able to write anything to the drives. Creation of files fail with the below error but once you cancel and exit we see the file created. Again if we try to edit and modify the file, the same error occures and the file is NOT updated. What could be the reasons for this error? A few screen captures below:

/appdata is the mount point which is shared and has write issues.

Quote:

[mqm@mqserver ~]$ nfsstat -m
/appdata from nfsserver.domain.com:/mq_36319scgdevnf/mq_36319scgdevnf
Flags: rw,relatime,vers=4,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,namlen=255,acregmin=0,acregmax=0,acdirmin=0,acdirmax=0,hard,proto=tcp,port= 0,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,clientaddr=10.11.121.131,minorversion=0,local_lock=none,addr=10.12.112 .113

[mqm@mqserver ~]$ more /etc/fstab

#
# /etc/fstab
# Created by anaconda on Fri Dec 6 07:20:21 2013
#
# Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk'
# See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or blkid(8) for more info
#
nfsserver.domain.com:/mq_36319scgdevnf/mq_36319scgdevnf /appdata nfs rw,bg,hard,nointr,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,tcp,actimeo=0,timeo=600 0 0

[mqm@mqserver ~]$ cd /appdata
[mqm@mqserver appdata]$ pwd
/appdata

[mqm@mqserver appdata]$ date
Mon Jun 16 00:27:02 CDT 2014
[mqm@mqserver appdata]$ vi test.txt

"test.txt"
"test.txt" E667: Fsync failed
WARNING: Original file may be lost or damaged
don't quit the editor until the file is successfully written!
Press ENTER or type command to continue

[mqm@mqserver appdata]$ ls -ltr
total 4
-rw-rw-rw- 1 mqm mqm 0 Jun 11 11:26 amqmfsck.lkw
drwxrwxr-x 1 mqm mqm 96 Jun 12 23:45 mqm
-rw------- 1 mqm mqm 7 Jun 16 00:27 test.txt
[mqm@mqserver appdata]$ date
Mon Jun 16 00:27:57 CDT 2014

There is enough space available in the disk (about 50GB free). Also permissions are good too with rw for the user/group 'mqm'.

Will be happy to provide more details if required. Please help with your valuable suggestions and advices.

Thanks!

bigrigdriver · 06-16-2014, 10:50 AM

Quote:

permissions are good too with rw for the user/group 'mqm'

I don't think so.
According to this:

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-rw-rw-rw- 1 mqm mqm 0 Jun 11 11:26 amqmfsck.lkw
drwxrwxr-x 1 mqm mqm 96 Jun 12 23:45 mqm
-rw------- 1 mqm mqm 7 Jun 16 00:27 test.txt

you have read/write permission for owner only on the file test.txt.

Here is a walk-through for setting up your NFS, from start to finish.

Bijish · 06-16-2014, 11:16 AM

Thank you for your response! We will go through the link to troubleshoot from our end. But again strange things keep happening

the dir /appdata has this permission

Quote:

drwxrwxr-x 1 mqm mqm 240 Jun 16 11:08 appdata
[mqm@ausdlmq13 /]$ pwd
/

I changed the permission for text.txt to 775 and tried to edit again and when I try to save and exit this error is displayed:

Quote:

"test.txt"
"test.txt" E507: Close error for backup file (add ! to override)
Press ENTER or type command to continue

Then when I list the dir I get:

Quote:

[mqm@ausdlmq13 appdata]$ ls -ltr
total 12
drwxrwxr-x 1 mqm mqm 96 Jun 12 23:45 mqm
-rwxrwxr-x 1 mqm mqm 7 Jun 16 00:27 test.txz~
-rwxrwxr-x 1 mqm mqm 7 Jun 16 00:27 test.txt~
-rwxrwxr-x 1 mqm mqm 7 Jun 16 00:27 test.txt
-rw-rw-rw- 1 mqm mqm 0 Jun 16 11:05 amqmfsck.lkw
[mqm@ausdlmq13 appdata]$ pwd
/appdata