[lustre-discuss] dealing with maybe dead OST

[Robin Humble]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 10:20:09AM -0400, Robin Humble wrote:
>On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 08:54:53PM +0000, Cowe, Malcolm J wrote:
>>Would using hard links work, instead of mv?

ah. success! looks like it's just that gnu 'mv' and 'ln' are waaaay too
smart for their own good. you got me thinking... what are 'mv' and 'ln'
doing lstat() for anyway?

so I wrote a few lines of C and stdio's rename() "just works" on the
client, even when the OST is disabled (as it damn well should).
too easy...
happily python's os.rename() works too ('cos I am lazy)

whoo! no need to mess with the MDT. that's a relief.

thanks :)

cheers,
robin