[Pvfs2-developers] PVFS2: files with ?---?--? permissions

[Phil Carns]

Becky Ligon wrote:
> Amit:
> 
> This means that the PVFS system cannot access the attributes database
> containing the information about the particular file.  It also means that
> the file is unusable.  You need to determine which metadata server is
> having problems.  If you don't have a backup, then you may not be able to
> recover your file.
> 
> Here at Clemson, we just went through this painful process, when one of
> the Berkeley DB holding metadata became corrupt.  You might try
> db_recover, but it didn't help us.  You might also try pvfs2-fsck.  If
> your file is unrecoverable, then pvfs2-fsck just simply cleans up the
> orphan objects.
> 
> Becky

Hi Amit,

Do you have anything in your server logs or the /tmp/pvfs2-client.log 
file on the client side?

thanks,
-Phil