Re: [Lustre-discuss] delete a "undeletable" file

2013-03-08 Thread David Cohen
day, March 07, 2013 6:09 PM > To: Colin Faber > Cc: Alfonso Pardo ; Ben Evans ; lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org > Subject: Re: [Lustre-discuss] delete a "undeletable" file > > You could just unlink it instead. That will work when rm fails. > > bob > > On 3/7/

Re: [Lustre-discuss] delete a "undeletable" file

2013-03-08 Thread Alfonso Pardo
quot;? THANKS! -Mensaje original- From: Bob Ball Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2013 6:09 PM To: Colin Faber Cc: Alfonso Pardo ; Ben Evans ; lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org Subject: Re: [Lustre-discuss] delete a "undeletable" file You could just unlink it instead. That will work when

Re: [Lustre-discuss] delete a "undeletable" file

2013-03-07 Thread Bob Ball
You could just unlink it instead. That will work when rm fails. bob On 3/7/2013 11:10 AM, Colin Faber wrote: > Hi, > > If the file is disassociated with an OST which is offline, bring the OST > back online, if the OST object it self is missing then you can remove > the file using 'unlink' rather

Re: [Lustre-discuss] delete a "undeletable" file

2013-03-07 Thread Colin Faber
Hi, If the file is disassociated with an OST which is offline, bring the OST back online, if the OST object it self is missing then you can remove the file using 'unlink' rather than 'rm' to unlink the object meta data. If you want to try and recover the missing OST object an lfs getstripe aga

Re: [Lustre-discuss] delete a "undeletable" file

2013-03-07 Thread Ben Evans
The snarky reply would be to use Emacs. More seriously: When I see something like ?? in the attributes for a file, my first thought is that the group_upcall on the filesystem is not correct, so permissions are broken. If you can log on as root, you may be able to see it clearly. If that d