Error: 17207, Severity: 16, State: 1. STREAMFCB::Startup: Operating system error 0xc01c0012(failed to retrieve text for this error. Reason: 317) occurred while creating or opening file '(file path)'.

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Symptoms

A SQL Server 2008 database having filestream enabled is in either recovery or being restored fails with below error

Error: 17207, Severity: 16, State: 1

STREAMFCB::Startup: Operating system error 0xc01c0012(failed to retrieve text for this error. Reason: 317) occurred while creating or opening file 'i:\FileStream\OpsFileStream'. Diagnose and correct the operating system error, and retry the operation.

Error: 17204, Severity: 16, State: 1

FCB::Startup () failed: Could not open file i:\FileStream\OpsFileStream for file number 65537. OS error: 0xc01c0012(failed to retrieve text for this error. Reason 317).

Error: 5105, Severity: 16, State: 14.

A file activation error occurred. The physical file name 'i:\FileStream\OpsFileStream' may be incorrect. Diagnose and correct additional errors, and retry the operation.

The issue most likely will happen after SQL Server is restarted or it terminated abnormally.

Resolution

Immediate resolution so far is to reboot the machine.