Files on a gfs2 filesystem used by SAS are becoming corrupted

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Issue

  • Files on a gfs2 filesystem used by SAS are becoming corrupted and errors like the following occur in SAS log files:

    ERROR: Expecting page 621, got page -1 instead.
ERROR: Page validation error while reading WORK.TESTDATA1.DATA.
ERROR: File WORK.TESTDATA1.DATA is damaged. I/O processing did not complete.
ERROR: Errors printed on page 10.
ERROR: Sorted run creation failure.
ERROR: File WORK.SIM.DATA is damaged. I/O processing did not complete.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 8, 9 (with the High Availability Add On and Resilient Storage Add Ons)
  • A Global Filesystem 2(gfs2)
  • The gfs2 filesystems are being used by SAS processes

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