On Feb 27, 2012, at 2:49 PM, Ashley Pittman wrote:

> 
> On 27 Feb 2012, at 19:30, Brock Palen wrote:
> 
>> I will have a limited window to migrate files to a new OST. I would like to 
>> get as far as I can in the window I have.
>> 
>> Is it safe to kill lfs_migrate while it is still running?
>> 
>> If so will it leave any 'partial copies' around?
> 
> The script will be limited by client bandwidth, if possible you could run 
> multiple instances, each working on a different part of the tree you want 
> copied.

Noted and planned on doing that, 

> 
> I'd also consider mounting the FS as a client on the server which hosts the 
> OST and running it there.

Wasn't making a server also a client considered bad juju ?  Memory pressure 
things and panics and other badness.   This would be nice because the OSS's 
have the biggest network pipes in our setup.   BTW I am moving old files from 
old OST's to new OST's to balance them back out.  in usage and in age 
distribution. 

> 
> Ashley.

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