mnesia + disc_only_copies

[Bjorn Gustavsson]

Unfortunately, we were unable to reproduce the problem
on Solaris 8/Sparc.

Which OS did you run on? 

/Bjorn

klacke@REDACTED writes:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm having some problems with mnesia and disc_only_copies tables.
> The error is pretty easy to recreate and I get the same error in
> both R9C-0 and latest R10
> 
> I create a table, with disc_only_copies on two nodes
> as in:
> 
> 
> c() ->
>     mnesia:create_table(a, 
>                         [{attributes, record_info(fields,a)},
>                          {disc_only_copies, [a@REDACTED, a@REDACTED]}]).
> 
> 
> 
> I then populate the table with a fairly large amount of items,
> say 500.000 records.
> 
> as:
> 
> 
> populate(0) ->
>     ok;
> populate(I) ->
>     mnesia:dirty_write(#a{key = I}),
>     populate(I-1).
> 
> 
> 
> the record "a", doesn't matter it can be any record.
> 
> Anyway, when table is populated and I start/stop the
> different nodes, the table needs to be copied from
> one node to the other.
> I get:
> 
> =ERROR REPORT==== 5-Feb-2005::23:23:09 ===
> Got invalid data on distribution channel, offending packet is: 
> <<112,131,104,3,97,2,67,5,103,67,245,0,0,0,101,0,0,0,0,3,131,104,2,103,67,71,0,0,0,122,0,0,0,0,1,104,2,67,183,108,0,0,0,8,104,3,97,13,98,0,2,34,88,109,0,0,16,0,0,0,9,144,18,52,86,120,0,0,2,98,131,104,6,100,0,1,97, .........
> 
> 
> This is all done by dets:bchunk(), I've tried to find the error,
> but to no avail.
> 
> Has anyone else had these problems, ??? Is _anybody_ using mnesia
> with large disc_only_copies tables ???
> 
> The bug appears to be fairly easy to reproduce, but ...well 
> hard to debug. Before digging deep into the bug, I thought I should
> ask if anyone else has seen this ???
> 
> 
> /klacke
> 
> 
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> 

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Björn Gustavsson, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB