[lustre-discuss] Renaming or Moving directories on Lustre?

[Philippe Weill]

Le 27/02/2023 à 19:57, Grigory Shamov a écrit :
> Hi All,
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> What happens if a directory on Lustre FS gets moved with a regular CentOS7 mv command, within the same filesystem? On CentOS 7, using mv from the distro, like this, as root:
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> mv /project/TEMP/user  /project/XYZ/user
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> It looks like the content gets copied entirely. Which for large data takes a large amount of time.

Are you using project quota ?

> Is there a way to rename the Lustre directories (changing the name of the top directory, only without moving every object in these directories)?  Thanks!
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