Lustre discuss - Mar 2007 - Questions regarding leftover inodes

I have 2 OSTs that I had to return to the manufacturer for replacement, so
I have disabled both OSTs from the MGS/MDT node. However, there are
several files that were associated with those 2 nodes that cannot be
overwritten.

?---------  ? ?    ?             ?            ? gss.00.nsd
?---------  ? ?    ?             ?            ? nt.02.nni
?---------  ? ?    ?             ?            ? refseq_rna.nhr
?---------  ? ?    ?             ?            ? wgs.01.nsq

Is there a way to allow those files to be overwritten other than
recreating the directories?


-- 
Jeremy Mann
jeremy@biochem.uthscsa.edu

University of Texas Health Science Center
Bioinformatics Core Facility
http://www.bioinformatics.uthscsa.edu
Phone: (210) 567-2672

On Mar 29, 2007  08:45 -0600, Jeremy Mann wrote:
> I have 2 OSTs that I had to return to the manufacturer for replacement, so
> I have disabled both OSTs from the MGS/MDT node. However, there are
> several files that were associated with those 2 nodes that cannot be
> overwritten.
> 
> ?---------  ? ?    ?             ?            ? gss.00.nsd
> ?---------  ? ?    ?             ?            ? nt.02.nni
> ?---------  ? ?    ?             ?            ? refseq_rna.nhr
> ?---------  ? ?    ?             ?            ? wgs.01.nsq
> 
> Is there a way to allow those files to be overwritten other than
> recreating the directories?
Try "unlink" or "munlink" instead of "rm".

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Principal Software Engineer
Cluster File Systems, Inc.