The filesystem interprets nonexistent file objects as holes -- so, zeroes.
This is expected. If you actually deleted *metadata* objects it would
detect that and fail.
-Greg

On Thursday, April 3, 2014, Danny Luhde-Thompson <
da...@meantradingsystems.com> wrote:

> I accidentally removed some MDS objects (a scary typo in a "rados
> cleanup"), and when trying the read the files via the kclient I got all
> zeros instead of some IO failure.  Is this expected behaviour?  I realise
> it's generally bad behaviour, but I didn't expect silent zeros.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Danny
>
>

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