[Lustre-discuss] File size in a Quota enabled MDT

[Andreas Dilger]

On Mar 10, 2009  17:28 -0500, Nirmal Seenu wrote:
> I have a quick question regarding the file size (as reported by ls 
> command) in the ROOT directory of MDT partition:
> 
> Are all these files supposed to be 0 size or the size of the file that 
> is stored on the OST? In our installation we have a combination of 0 
> byte files and really huge(few GB) spare files.

Currently, the file size on the MDS has very little meaning, and should
be considered an internal Lustre implementation detail, if at all.

> I am running lustre version 1.6.7 and using version2 quota on this MDT. 
> I was able to successfully run a "lfs quotacheck" on this file system as 
> well.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.