Hi, I am trying to debug a behavior that I am seeing in our cluster on a standalone file server with three partitions. when I try to copy a small file into the machine I see this error: (debugging is on) 110515 19:19:58 001 Xrd: Open: Access to server granted. 110515 19:19:58 001 Xrd: Open: Opening the remote file /atlas/local/benjamin/atl010-testfile?oss.asize=22 110515 19:19:58 001 Xrd: Open: File open in progress. 110515 19:19:58 22101 Xrd: SendGenCommand: Sending command Open 110515 19:19:58 22101 Xrd: ReadPartialAnswer: Reading a XrdClientMessage from the server [atl005.phy.duke.edu:1094]... 110515 19:19:58 22101 Xrd: ReaderThread_loc: Reader Thread starting. [xrootd] Total 0.00 MB |====110515 19:19:58 22101 Xrd: ReadPartialAnswer: Server [atl005.phy.duke.edu:1094] answered [kXR_error] (4003) =======110515 19:19:58 22101 Xrd: CheckErrorStatus: Server [atl005.phy.duke.edu] declared: Unable to create /atlas/local/benjamin/atl010-testfile; invalid suggested allocation size(error code: 3005) 110515 19:19:58 001 Xrd: WriteBuffer: File not opened. Error writing to output server. Last server error 3005 ('Unable to create /atlas/local/benjamin/atl010-testfile; invalid suggested allocation size') 110515 19:19:58 001 Xrd: Close: File not opened. 110515 19:19:58 001 Xrd: Disconnect: LogConnID: 0 destroyed ******************************************************* On a test machine I have create three partitions: [root@atl005 ~]# df -h /array* Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/xrootdvg-lv01 222G 188M 211G 1% /array1 /dev/mapper/xrootdvg-lv02 226G 188M 214G 1% /array2 /dev/mapper/xrootdvg-lv03 226G 188M 214G 1% /array3 - Note all have plenty of space. --------------------------- Here is the configuration file ------------------ set head = atlhn02.phy.duke.edu set exportpath = /atlas set domainname = *.phy.duke.edu all.adminpath /var/spool/xrootd/admin all.export $(exportpath) oss.space public /array* xrootd.chksum max 3 adler32 /usr/bin/xrdadler32 xrootd.seclib /usr/lib64/libXrdSec.so # this specify that we use the 'unix' authentication module, additional one can be specified. sec.protocol /usr/lib64 unix # this is the authorization file acc.authdb /etc/xrootd/auth_file ofs.authorize ofs.notify closew create mkdir mv rm rmdir trunc | /usr/bin/XrdCnsd -d -D 2 -i 90 -b $(head):1095:$(exportpath)/inventory ------------------------ Here is the authorization file (though I do not see it making any difference) # This means that all the users have read access to the datasets u * /atlas lr # This means that all the users have full access to their private dirs u = /atlas/local/@=/ a # This means that this privileged user can do everything # You need at least one user like that, in order to create the # private dir for each user willing to store his data in the facility u xrootd /atlas a ---------------------------------------------------------------- Here is snippets from the xrootd.log ++++++ Storage system initialization started. =====> all.export /atlas =====> oss.space public /array* Config effective /etc/xrootd/xrootd-standalone.cfg oss configuration: oss.alloc 0 0 0 oss.cachescan 600 oss.compdetect * oss.fdlimit 32678 65356 oss.maxsize 0 oss.trace 0 oss.xfr 1 deny 10800 keep 1200 oss.memfile off max 8413181952 oss.space public /array1 oss.space public /array3 oss.space public /array2 oss.defaults r/w nocheck nodread nomig norcreate nopurge nostage xattr oss.path /atlas r/w nocheck nodread nomig norcreate nopurge nostage xattr ------ Storage system initialization completed. 110515 19:00:21 19065 XrootdXeq: benjamin.22101:6@atl010 login as benjamin 110515 19:00:21 19065 ofs_open: benjamin.22101:6@atl010 Unable to create /atlas/local/benjamin/atl010-testfile; invalid suggested allocation size 110515 19:00:21 19065 XrootdXeq: benjamin.22101:6@atl010 disc 0:00:00 --------------------------- I am at a lost to try to understand why I am getting the errors invalid suggested allocation size Thanks, Doug