[Lustre-discuss] lfs --obd discrepancy to lctl dl (1.8.3)

[Christopher J. Morrone]

On 08/11/2010 01:38 AM, Daniel Kobras wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 09:53:01AM +0200, Heiko Schröter wrote:
>> According to "lfs find" the stripe should be on scia-OST0017_UUID. "lfs
>> gestripe" reports to have it on obdidx 23 , which is scia-OST0014 according
>> to lctl dl.  Which one is true ?
>
> lctl dl returns a list of all Lustre components running on the local machine,
> prefixed by a sequential number. It depends on the order in which components
> have been started on the machine, and has nothing to do with obdidx. Your
> file resides on OST 23 (== 0x17), therefore.

If you don't want to do the math (or your indexes somehow don't match 
your ost names), you can use the "lfs osts" command to get a mapping of 
indices to ost names.

Chris