[lustre-discuss] Usage for lfs setstripe -o ost_indices

[Mohr Jr, Richard Frank (Rick Mohr)]

> On Nov 9, 2018, at 11:28 AM, Mohr Jr, Richard Frank (Rick Mohr) <rmohr at utk.edu> wrote:
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>> On Nov 8, 2018, at 11:44 AM, Ms. Megan Larko <dobsonunit at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I have been attempting this command on a directory on a Lustre-2.10.4 storage from a Lustre 2.10.1 client and I fail with the following message:
>>> lfs setstripe -c 4 -S 1m  -o 1,2-4 custTest/
>> error on ioctl 0x4008669a for 'custTest' (3): Invalid argument
>> error: setstripe: create striped file 'custTest' filed: Invalid argument
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> Do you get the same error if you try to run this on a file instead of a directory?  Also, don’t you typically need to add the “-d” option when setting stripe parameters for a directory?

Ignore that last part.  I forgot that “-d” is for deleting stripe parameters on a directory...

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Rick Mohr
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National Institute for Computational Sciences
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