Purging unreachable files

[Brandon Ooi]

We got this in our disk crash. Seems like one of our storage nodes 
stopped responding which hung the mogilefsd processes on both of our 
tracking machines.

The aftermath was a number of files in the unreachable_fids table which 
seem to be missing forever. I'd like to restore some of these from 
backup and I want to purge them first.

Can i just remove them from the 'file' and 'file_on' table?

Brandon

Brad Fitzpatrick wrote:

>get these or "got" these?
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>Does your replication really lag that much?
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>There's no automatic mechanism to purge "unreachable" files, since it's
>not known whether they're unreachable just temporarily or forever.
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>You could build it into your app if you want.  Or your MogileFS wrapper.
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>On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Brandon Ooi wrote:
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>>Hi,
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>>Another question. What's the correct procedure to purge unreachable
>>files? We get these from a drive failing before it can be replicated.
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>>Brandon
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