On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 12:20 AM, Davie De Smet <davie.des...@nomadesk.com> wrote: > Hi, > > We do use hardlinks a lot. The application using the cluster has a build in > 'trashcan' functionality based on hardlinks. Obviously, all removed files and > hardlinks are not visible anymore on the CephFS mount itself. Can I manually > remove the strays on the OSD's themselves?
No, definitely not. At least part of the problem is: *) Ceph stores file metadata organized by its *path* location, not in a separate on-disk inode data structure like local FSes do. *) When you hard link a file in CephFS, its "primary" location increments the link counter and its "remote" location just records the inode number (and it has to look up metadata later on-demand). *) When you unlink the primary link, the inode data gets moved into the stray directory until one of the remote links comes calling. >Or do you mean that I'm required to do a small touch/write on all files that >have not yet been deleted (this would be painfull as the cluster is 200TB+)? Luckily, it doesn't take quite that much work. It looks like just doing a getattr on all the remote links in your system should do it. If it's just your trash can, "ls -l" on that directory will probably pull them in. Or you could delete the whole trashcan folder (set of folders?) and they'll go away as well. -Greg _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@lists.ceph.com http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
