I have written a tool that fixes this type of error. I'm currently testing it. Will push it out tomorrow
Regards Yan, Zheng On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 9:18 PM, Davie De Smet <davie.des...@nomadesk.com> wrote: > Hi Gregory, > > Thanks for the help! I've been looping over all trashcan files and the amount > of strays is lowering. This is going to take quite some time as it are a lot > of files but so far so good. If I should encounter any further problems > regarding this topic, I'll give this thread a heads up. > > Kind regards, > > Davie De Smet > Director Technical Operations and Customer Services, Nomadesk > +32 9 240 10 31 (Office) > > -----Original Message----- > From: Gregory Farnum [mailto:gfar...@redhat.com] > Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2016 2:11 AM > To: Davie De Smet <davie.des...@nomadesk.com> > Cc: Mykola Dvornik <mykola.dvor...@gmail.com>; John Spray > <jsp...@redhat.com>; ceph-users <ceph-us...@ceph.com> > Subject: Re: [ceph-users] CephFS: No space left on device > > On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 12:20 AM, Davie De Smet <davie.des...@nomadesk.com> > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> We do use hardlinks a lot. The application using the cluster has a build in >> 'trashcan' functionality based on hardlinks. Obviously, all removed files >> and hardlinks are not visible anymore on the CephFS mount itself. Can I >> manually remove the strays on the OSD's themselves? > > No, definitely not. At least part of the problem is: > *) Ceph stores file metadata organized by its *path* location, not in a > separate on-disk inode data structure like local FSes do. > *) When you hard link a file in CephFS, its "primary" location increments the > link counter and its "remote" location just records the inode number (and it > has to look up metadata later on-demand). > *) When you unlink the primary link, the inode data gets moved into the stray > directory until one of the remote links comes calling. > >>Or do you mean that I'm required to do a small touch/write on all files that >>have not yet been deleted (this would be painfull as the cluster is 200TB+)? > > Luckily, it doesn't take quite that much work. It looks like just doing a > getattr on all the remote links in your system should do it. > If it's just your trash can, "ls -l" on that directory will probably pull > them in. Or you could delete the whole trashcan folder (set of > folders?) and they'll go away as well. > -Greg > _______________________________________________ > ceph-users mailing list > ceph-users@lists.ceph.com > http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@lists.ceph.com http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
