Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Checking a file-system for errors

2017-10-11 Thread Simon Thompson (IT Research Support)
ttgart, >HRB 17122 > > > > >From: "Simon Thompson (IT Research Support)" <s.j.thomp...@bham.ac.uk> >To: gpfsug main discussion list <gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org> >Date: 10/11/2017 01:22 PM >Subject:Re: [gpfsug-discuss] C

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Checking a file-system for errors

2017-10-11 Thread Uwe Falke
ate: 10/11/2017 01:22 PM Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Checking a file-system for errors Sent by:gpfsug-discuss-boun...@spectrumscale.org Yes I get we should only be doing this if we think we have a problem. And the answer is, right now, we're not entirely clear. We have a

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Checking a file-system for errors

2017-10-11 Thread Frederick Stock
Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Checking a file-system for errors Sent by:gpfsug-discuss-boun...@spectrumscale.org OK thanks, So if I run mmfsck in online mode and it says: "File system is clean. Exit status 0:10:0." Then I can assume there is no benefit to running in offline mode? But

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Checking a file-system for errors

2017-10-11 Thread Simon Thompson (IT Research Support)
Yes I get we should only be doing this if we think we have a problem. And the answer is, right now, we're not entirely clear. We have a couple of issues our users are reporting to us, and its not clear to us if they are related, an FS problem or ACLs getting in the way. We do have users who are

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Checking a file-system for errors

2017-10-11 Thread Uwe Falke
omp...@bham.ac.uk> To: gpfsug main discussion list <gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org> Date: 10/11/2017 12:32 PM Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Checking a file-system for errors Sent by:gpfsug-discuss-boun...@spectrumscale.org OK thanks, So if I run mmfsck in onli

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Checking a file-system for errors

2017-10-11 Thread Simon Thompson (IT Research Support)
OK thanks, So if I run mmfsck in online mode and it says: "File system is clean. Exit status 0:10:0." Then I can assume there is no benefit to running in offline mode? But it would also be prudent to run "mmrestripefs -c" to be sure my filesystem is happy? Thanks Simon On 11/10/2017, 11:19,

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Checking a file-system for errors

2017-10-11 Thread Uwe Falke
Hm , mmfsck will return not very reliable results in online mode, especially it will report many issues which are just due to the transient states in a files system in operation. It should however not find less issues than in off-line mode. mmrestripefs -c does not do any logical checks, it