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<br><div><div>On 16/02/2013, at 7:11 PM, "Dilger, Andreas" <<a href="mailto:andreas.dilger@intel.com">andreas.dilger@intel.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">On 2013-02-14, at 9:46, "Alastair Ferguson" <<a href="mailto:aferguson@cmcrc.com">aferguson@cmcrc.com</a><<a href="mailto:aferguson@cmcrc.com">mailto:aferguson@cmcrc.com</a>>> wrote:<br><br>OK, so our old MDS had hardware issues so I configured a new MGS / MDS on a VM (this is a backup lustre filesystem and I wanted to separate the MGS / MDS from OSS of the previous), and then did this<br><br>When you write that your files are missing, do you mean that they do not appear with "ls -l", or that they are present but contain no data?<br><br>I also upgraded from 1.8.8 to 2. I managed to mount the Lustre filesystem<br><br>Just as a general sysadmin rule, doing too many things at once makes it difficult to figure out what went wrong.<br>Was it the data migration? Splitting off the MGS? Upgrading to 2.x (you don't report which version)?<br><br>However, there are hardly any files or folders there - most of them have disappeared, but they are clearly on the OSTs (according to the above command). Is there any way I can reindex the OST'S / MDS to recognise the files and folders properly?<br><br>Do you still have the old MDT storage? Have your mounted the new MDT as type ldiskfs to see if your files are there? They would be located below the "ROOT/" directory inside the MDT filesystem.<br><br>Cheers, Andreas<br><span><image.png></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>