Isilon Deduplication Job Always Fails

Hello AlteredApe,

Which Isilon system do you have and what is your current onefs version that you are using as well?

Hi,

 Thanks for the speedy response.

 It's actually a 5 node cluster. 2x X200 3x X210 modules. Running 8.1.2.0. So quite old.

Looking at the report I get this:

% isi job reports view -v --id 36049
Dedupe[36049] phase 1 (2021-06-11T12:47:08)
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Errors 1
Error list [ 21-06-11 12:45:58 Dedupe[36049] Node 6 (6) task 6-194: Device busy ]

% isi job reports view -v --id 36510
Dedupe[36510] phase 1 (2021-06-15T23:01:23)
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Errors 1
Error list [ 21-06-15 23:00:18 Dedupe[36510] Node 5 (5) task 6-142: Invalid argument ]

% isi job reports view -v --id 36706
Dedupe[36706] phase 1 (2021-06-21T14:39:17)
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Errors 1
Error list [ 21-06-21 14:38:15 Dedupe[36706] Node 5 (5) task 6-84: Invalid argument ]

% isi job reports view -v --id 36708
Dedupe[36708] phase 1 (2021-06-21T14:53:04)
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Errors 1
Error list [ 21-06-21 14:51:59 Dedupe[36708] Node 4 (4) task 6-84: Invalid argument ]

% isi job reports view -v --id 36710
Dedupe[36710] phase 1 (2021-06-21T15:14:26)
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Errors 1
Error list [ 21-06-21 15:13:25 Dedupe[36710] Node 4 (4) task 6-84: Invalid argument ]

% isi job reports view -v --id 36712
Dedupe[36712] phase 1 (2021-06-21T15:23:30)
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Errors 1
Error list [ 21-06-21 15:22:29 Dedupe[36712] Node 4 (4) task 6-84: Invalid argument ]

SmartDedupe deduplicates data by scanning an Isilon cluster for identical data blocks. Each block is 8 KB. If SmartDedupe finds duplicate blocks, SmartDedupe moves a single copy of the blocks to a hidden file called a shadow store. SmartDedupe then deletes the duplicate blocks from the original files and replaces the blocks with pointers to the shadow store.

Hello AlteredApe,

Looking at your error log you posted it states that there are invalid arguments.  What I would do is to try & recreate the job from scratch to see if you still get the error.  I would also check the administrator guide to make sure that the jobs are created correctly.  Here is the link to the admin guide. https://dell.to/3zOm7Q8

Did you ever figure out what was going on??  im having the same issues.   I tried removing all the jobs, and configured the assessment and dedupe job to just be /ifs/data  and  ran a 5 day job for just the dedupe assessment and that worked.   When i rand the dedupe job again, it failed.  So any insight would be appreciated.

Hello glong101,

Which Isilon system do you have and what is your current Onefs version?

Hello!
Did you find a solution to your issue? Can you share it?