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

[Hale, Darrian J]

Sorry hit send accidentally.

Stat also gives a No such file or directory error.

This file exists on the meta server.

-Darrian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hale, Darrian J [mailto:djhale@sandia.gov] 
> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 1:13 PM
> To: 'Rob Ross'
> Cc: 'pvfs-users@www.beowulf-underground.org'
> Subject: RE: [PVFS-users] meta server and io servers out of sync
> 
> 
> 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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