The full functionality of layout LFSCK for handling orphan OST-objects is available since Lustre-2.6.
Regards, Nasf -----Original Message----- From: lustre-discuss [mailto:lustre-discuss-boun...@lists.lustre.org] On Behalf Of Dilger, Andreas Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2016 7:03 AM To: Jessica Otey <jo...@nrao.edu> Cc: lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org Subject: Re: [lustre-discuss] syntax/guidance on lfsck The lfsck in 2.5.3 does not verify/repair MDT->OST file layouts. In order to delete the orphan OST objects you need to mark the OST active again on the MDS and restart the MDS. There were a couple of bugs fixed in this area in 2.9.0 (maybe 2.8.0 already, I can't recall offhand) so that this isn't needed in the future. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Lustre Principal Architect Intel High Performance Data Division On 2016/12/13, 14:04, "lustre-discuss on behalf of Jessica Otey" <lustre-discuss-boun...@lists.lustre.org on behalf of jo...@nrao.edu> wrote: All, If there is anyone who has run as lfsck on a 2.5.3 system, I would appreciate some guidance. The manual has only been of limited help. The situation: We were draining and OST unaware that a but in 2.5.3 causes the inodes to remain--thus rendering the df readout inaccurate (and therefore not useful). The solution: This should be fixable via lfsck--it would simply compared the inodes and the files and bring them back into the correct alignment (i.e., delete the inodes that no longer correspond to data on the OST). The specific issue: I don't know: 1) What exact lfsck command to issue 2) Where to issue it (mds, oss) 3) What to expect as far as output/how to interact with it What I have done: I had issued (on the oss) the following command: [root@naasc-oss-6 ~]# lctl lfsck_start --device naaschpc-OST0014 Started LFSCK on the device naaschpc-OST0014. But the prompt just returns, as if it either done or it is doing something in the background? I don't understand how to tell what it is doing. When I tried to stop it, I got: [root@naasc-oss-6 ~]# lctl lfsck_stop --device naaschpc-OST0014 Fail to stop LFSCK: Operation already in progress Any help interpreting these messages as well as coming up with the proper command to run to correct our inode issue would be helpful. Please keep in mind that many features described in the 2.x manual aren't available because we are only using 2.5.3. (For instance, the --type layout option, which seems to be what we want (check and repair MDT-OST inconsistency) is not available until 2.6. Thanks, Jessica -- Jessica Otey System Administrator II North American ALMA Science Center (NAASC) National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) _______________________________________________ lustre-discuss mailing list lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org http://lists.lustre.org/listinfo.cgi/lustre-discuss-lustre.org _______________________________________________ lustre-discuss mailing list lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org http://lists.lustre.org/listinfo.cgi/lustre-discuss-lustre.org _______________________________________________ lustre-discuss mailing list lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org http://lists.lustre.org/listinfo.cgi/lustre-discuss-lustre.org