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

[Hale, Darrian J]

The version is 1.6.0.

with ls on the directory containing the file, an error shows up: ls <file>:
No such file or directory
with stat * in the directory I get output as follows for the file:


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Ross [mailto:rross@mcs.anl.gov] 
> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 1:07 PM
> To: Hale, Darrian J
> Cc: 'pvfs-users@www.beowulf-underground.org'
> Subject: Re: [PVFS-users] meta server and io servers out of sync
> 
> 
> 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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