[lustre-devel] have df report a more up-to-date view of the filesystem

Dilger, Andreas andreas.dilger at intel.com
Thu May 18 19:14:42 PDT 2017


On May 17, 2017, at 13:16, quentin.bouget at cea.fr wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> In LU-8940 I describe an issue I am having with df in Lustre's tests. In short, df/statfs can report outdated information about a Lustre filesystem; given enough time, its output gets correct. From what I understand, statfs cannot report an "always up-to-date" view of the filesystem as this would cost too much time and resources.
> 
> I would like to know what you guys think of having Lustre's statfs operation report a view of the filesystem at least as new as when the last sync operation completed?
> 
> My point being that users (and tests) would be able to run df --sync to get up-to-date information (at the cost of a sync operation, and maybe some accounting for statfs).

This isn't really a problem with "df".  The client will cache the statfs information for at most 1s until it refreshes it again.

What it appears is happening (from LU-8940) is that unlinking a bunch of files doesn't delete the files and destroy the objects fast enough for the small test filesystem.  If there is a real system being used then it would likely not have any significant problems seen on these small filesystems.

There are methods in test-framework.sh (e.g. wait_delete_completed()) to handle the free space reporting when the filesystem is full.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Lustre Principal Architect
Intel Corporation









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