Amit: This means that the PVFS system cannot access the attributes database containing the information about the particular file. It also means that the file is unusable. You need to determine which metadata server is having problems. If you don't have a backup, then you may not be able to recover your file.
Here at Clemson, we just went through this painful process, when one of the Berkeley DB holding metadata became corrupt. You might try db_recover, but it didn't help us. You might also try pvfs2-fsck. If your file is unrecoverable, then pvfs2-fsck just simply cleans up the orphan objects. Becky -- Becky Ligon PVFS Developer Clemson University 864-656-3865 > Hi All, > > PVFS2: files with ?---?--? Permissions > > I see some of the file on our pvfs2 file system have these weird > permissions and this leads to longer turnaround time on simple commands as > "ls". > Any idea what could cause this, and how to fix this. I tried to chmod on > these files, but it failed. > > Thank you, > Amit > > _______________________________________________ > Pvfs2-developers mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.beowulf-underground.org/mailman/listinfo/pvfs2-developers > _______________________________________________ Pvfs2-developers mailing list [email protected] http://www.beowulf-underground.org/mailman/listinfo/pvfs2-developers
