[PVFS-users] meta server and io servers out of sync

[Rob Ross]

Hi,

What is the error that you see?  What version of the code is this?

Thanks,

Rob

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Hale, Darrian J wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> We had a NIC on one of our io servers fail.  At that time data was being
> written to the filesystem (and seemingly to the io server that went down).
> We replaced the NIC and got the filesystem back up.
> 
> Now it looks like we have a corrupt/missing file on the io server, and the
> meta server still thinks that file is ok.
> 
> On a client that has the filesystem mounted I cannot
> stat/touch/delete/move/anything the file in question.
> 
> Is the solution to this problem to just delete the file from the meta
> server?  If I do this wont I lose some useable blocks on the io server?  Is
> there a better way?
> 
> Also is there a way to tell by looking at the files in the meta server,
> which io server the data resides on?
> 
> Thanks, Darrian
> 
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