Thanks for the reply. I already did a e2fsck. The problem is on my clients I see couple of files with "????" in its attributes. I can't even remove these files to regenerate them.
Any idea on how to forcefully remove these files? On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 10:30 PM, Andreas Dilger <[email protected]> wrote: > On Apr 04, 2009 18:58 -0400, Mag Gam wrote: >> I see, so there is no easy way to recover on the MGS. I have a good >> idea who the user is for these files but the file names are very hard >> to decypher. They have names like 543434. I am not sure what file that >> would be part of... > > The problem at this point is that the directories were corrupted > (unfortunately due to bug 18695 I think) and the names of the files > are lost. The best that e2fsck can do at this point is to put the > files into lost+found with the inode number as the filename. > >> On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Andreas Dilger <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Apr 04, 2009 09:36 -0400, Mag Gam wrote: >> >> I have over 52k files in my lost+found of my MGS (not my OSTs). I am >> >> not sure what tool I need to use to recover these files. Should i use >> >> lfsck or ll_recover_lost_found_objs? >> > >> > That is only for the OSTs. Unfortunately, there is no easy way to >> > recover them except by e.g. UID/GID and looking at the contents, >> > which is true of local filesystems as well. >> > >> > I'd recommend making a lost+found directory in each user's home dir >> > and then moving all of their files into their directory (with MDS >> > mounted with -t ldiskfs) and let them sort it out. >> > >> > In Lustre 2.0 and later the MDS inodes will contain an attribute that >> > holds the filename and parent directory ID that will allow recovery in >> > a manner similar to how ll_recover_lost_found_objs does for the OST. > > Cheers, Andreas > -- > Andreas Dilger > Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group > Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc. > > _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
