How to cleanup dangling (unable to be retrieved) files entirely?

王晓哲 chaoslawful at gmail.com
Thu Jan 31 02:41:22 UTC 2008


Hi all,
I have tried MogileFS for a while, and did the following things:

1. add a domain and a class in that domain, with mindevcount=3 (make 3
replications);
2. insert a new file into MogileFS, and I saw there are 3 storage nodes
(node A,B,C) contained that file according to 'mogadm stats';
3. manually mark one of those nodes (node A) to be down, and try to
retrieve that file: file retrieved normally, and a new replication is
made up on another node (node D) as expected;
4. manually mark the previous down node alive, and delete the file.

Here comes the problem: after the file has been deleted, there are no
contents in node B,C and D, but still left one copy of the file in node
A (can be seen through 'mogadm stats'). That copy could not be accessed
anymore, but do occupied the storage spaces. Even though I tried to
clean up the whole storage directory on node A, the mogadm file
statistics remain unchanged.

With a long running systems and lots of files, this phenomenon will be
very annoying. So is there any formal method to clean up all of these
dangling files in a MogileFS system?

Thanks!

-Chaos



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