GPFS filesystem is hanging and there is a slowness in job processing,

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Environment

  • RHEL (all versions)
  • GPFS Filesystem

Issue

  • /abcd/ filesystem is hanging and there is a slowness in job processing.

Resolution

  • GPFS filesystem is not shipped by Red Hat.
  • Please contact the Filesystem vendor i.e. IBM to debug the issue.

Root Cause

  • As a product not shipped by Red Hat, GPFS filesystem is not supported by Red Hat

Diagnostic Steps

You can check in sosreport with the following command:

# cat etc/fstab | grep -i <name_of_filesystem> 
 /dev/abcd /efg gpfs rw,mtime,atime,dev=abcd,noauto 0 0

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