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...
On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Andreas Dilger <adil...@sun.com> 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 Lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss