[Lustre-discuss] How to remove ghost files when running on an LVM snapshot of the MDT?

[Arne Wiebalck]

Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Jul 09, 2009  15:44 +0200, Arne Wiebalck wrote:
>> my MDS is running on an LVM snapshot of the MDT. Some files
>> have been deleted after the snapshot was taken, so these
>> appear as 'ghost' files now on the clients and I'm trying
>> to get rid of them.
> 
> Can you please explain more about what you are doing?  Is the
> MDS itself running on an old snapshot?

Yes. And as you raise it: how do I get back from using a snapshot
for the MDT (to which I switched in case I had a problem with the 
original logical volume) to a snapshot'able MDT device?

Cheers,
  Arne


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