[Linux-cluster] Strange directory listing

Stewart Walters spods at iinet.net.au
Fri Mar 6 07:17:31 UTC 2009


What does a `ls -ln' reveal?

Are the UIDs/GIDs of the first three files the same as all the others?

Regards,

Stewart



On Fri Mar  6  9:28 , Jeff Sturm  sent:

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>We keep Lucene 
>search indexes on a GFS storage volume, mounted cluster-wide.  This way 
>each cluster node can perform a search, or append the search index with new 
>content.  Works great.
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>Funny thing is, 
>when I list the directory containing the search index, I sometimes see output 
>like the following:
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>$ ls -l
>total 
>600
>?--------- ? ?      
>?           
>?            ? 
>_2931.f3
>?--------- ? ?      
>?           
>?            ? 
>_2931.f4
>-rw-r--r-- 1 toybox toybox   1260 Mar  5 20:21 
>_2931.f5
>?--------- ? ?      
>?           
>?            ? 
>_2931.f6
>-rw-r--r-- 1 toybox toybox   1261 Mar  5 20:21 
>_2933.f1
>-rw-r--r-- 1 toybox toybox   1261 Mar  5 20:21 
>_2933.f2
>-rw-r--r-- 1 toybox toybox   1261 Mar  5 20:21 
>_2933.f3
>-rw-r--r-- 1 toybox toybox   1261 Mar  5 20:21 
>_2933.f4
>-rw-r--r-- 1 toybox toybox   1261 Mar  5 20:21 
>_2933.f5
>-rw-r--r-- 1 toybox toybox   1261 Mar  5 20:21 
>_2933.f6
>-rw-r--r-- 1 toybox toybox 226300 Mar  5 20:21 
>_2933.fdt
>-rw-r--r-- 1 toybox toybox  10088 Mar  5 20:21 
>_2933.fdx
>-rw-r--r-- 1 toybox toybox     51 Mar  5 
>20:21 _2933.fnm
>-rw-r--r-- 1 toybox toybox  60778 Mar  5 20:21 
>_2933.frq
>-rw-r--r-- 1 toybox toybox  43035 Mar  5 20:21 
>_2933.prx
>-rw-r--r-- 1 toybox toybox   1571 Mar  5 20:21 
>_2933.tii
>-rw-r--r-- 1 toybox toybox 118784 Mar  5 20:21 
>_2933.tis
>-rw-r--r-- 1 toybox toybox      0 
>Mar  5 20:21 commit.lock
>-rw-r--r-- 1 toybox 
>toybox      0 Mar  5 20:21 deletable
>-rw-r--r-- 
>1 toybox toybox     18 Mar  5 20:21 
>segments
>-rw-r--r-- 1 toybox toybox      0 Mar  
>5 20:21 write.lock
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>I would have 
>expected to see something in each of the fields.  Is this a clue that 
>stat() is failing?  If so, why?  I've never seen anything like it on a 
>non-GFS volume.
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>-Jeff
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