Re: [lustre-discuss] reasonable runtime for e2fsck

2016-08-13 Thread Dilger, Andreas
I wouldn't consider the lack of an lfsck run a reason to rush into an upgrade. In most cases this will only result in some orphan OST objects consuming space for a while, or MDT files returning ENOENT that can be deleted with "unlink". As for upgrading, there isn't any reason to stop at the

Re: [lustre-discuss] reasonable runtime for e2fsck

2016-08-12 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Yeah I stopped this and am strongly considering upgrading the servers to CentOS 6.7 + lustre 2.8, I hope to first test it on a test environment Did anyone run this type of upgrade? Should it work? Or should I take it in steps (2.6, 2.7 and only then 2.8)? Thanks, Eli On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at

Re: [lustre-discuss] reasonable runtime for e2fsck

2016-08-12 Thread Dilger, Andreas
Running "e2fsck --mdsdb" will take _much_ longer than a regular e2fsck, because the mdsdb database is sparsely written. I would recommend not running the old e2fsprogs-based lfsck, since Lustre 2.5 has enough functionality to repair the Lustre-specific parts of the local filesystem (after a

[lustre-discuss] reasonable runtime for e2fsck

2016-08-11 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Sorry about spamming the list but I realize it may be better that subjects be split into threads I started e2fsck --mdsdb 6 hours ago on an MDT that is 1T in size, am I being unreasonable if I think it should have been done by now? What type of runtimes have you seen? I shudder to think how