Hi Ben, I have thousands of entries under /your/brick/directory/.glusterfs .. find would return too many results. How do I find the one I'm looking for? :-) -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ben England" <bengland@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: "Nux!" <nux@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: "Gluster Devel" <gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Friday, 21 November, 2014 16:00:40 > Subject: Re: How to resolve gfid (and .glusterfs symlink) for a deleted file > first of all, links in .glusterfs are HARD links not symlinks. So the file is > not actually deleted, since the local filesystem keeps a count of references to > the inode and won't release the inode until the ref count reaches zero. I > tried this, it turns out you can find it with > > # find /your/brick/directory/.glusterfs -links 1 -type f > > You use "type f" because it's a hard link to a file, and you don't want to look > at directories or "." or ".." . Once you find the link, you can copy the file > off somewhere, and then delete the link. At that point, regular self-heal > could repair it (i.e. just do "ls" on the file from a Gluster mountpoint). > > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Nux!" <nux@xxxxxxxxx> >> To: "Gluster Devel" <gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx> >> Sent: Friday, November 21, 2014 10:34:09 AM >> Subject: How to resolve gfid (and .glusterfs symlink) for a >> deleted file >> >> Hi, >> >> I deleted a file by mistake in a brick. I never managed to find out its gfid >> so now I have a rogue symlink in .glusterfs pointing to it (if I got how it >> works). >> Any way I can discover which is this file and get rid of it? >> >> -- >> Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! >> >> Nux! >> www.nux.ro >> _______________________________________________ >> Gluster-devel mailing list >> Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx >> http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel _______________________________________________ Gluster-devel mailing list Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel