[Lustre-discuss] Unattached Orphan Inodes

[Dilger, Andreas]

What version of Lustre are you using, and do you ever use "lfs migrate" or "lfs_migrate" to migrate files onto new OSTs? There was a bug that would cause orphan inodes on the MDS after migration.

This does result in some space leakage, but unless you have a large problem there is no requirement to run lfsck, which can take a long time.

The new LFSCK that is in the 2.6 release will be able to find and repair these objects while the filesystem is mounted.

Cheers, Andreas

On Jun 23, 2014, at 17:12, "Alastair Ferguson" <aferguson at cmcrc.com<mailto:aferguson at cmcrc.com>> wrote:

I have run:

e2fsck -n -v —-mdsdb /tmp/mdsdb /dev/mapper/mpath1p1 >> /tmp/mdsdb_results2.txt

On my MDS as it is crashing regularly and it says I have unattached inodes which means presumably I just have to run lfsck -l -v after I have run the e2fsck on the OSTs against the MDSDB to put them into lost+found.

I couldn’t do this before because when this corruption originally happened it wouldn’t let me run e2fsck on one of the OSS’s because it had external journals but I discovered (in part by what Andreas said on Friday) that I can remove the journal and then recreate it internally thereby allowing me to run e2fsck and therefore lfsck correctly.

So my question is, this is just a corruption in the MDS - i.e. metadata not the OSTs so does that mean I won’t lose any actual data files, just file references? What data loss should I expect?

Let me know.

Thanks!

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