[LU-3898] lfs getstripe recusively fetches stripe information without being asked to

• Status: Resolved
• Project: Lustre
• Affects Version/s: Lustre 2.4.1, Lustre 2.5.0
• Type: Bug
• Priority: Major
• Reporter: Colin Faber [X] (Inactive)
• Assignee: WC Triage
• Resolution: Not a Bug
• Severity: 3

Description

It seems that lfs getstripe command now has -R or --recursive option enabled by default.

If I have a directory with 10k files in it, and I want to check the striping of just the directory, lfs getstripe returns the stripe info for that directory and all 10k files as well.

This would be welcome if I had specified -R or --recursive option but I'm not.

-cf

Issue Links

• is related to: LU-3899 lfs getstripe --raw option is ignored

Comments

[Andreas Dilger]

Colin, this has always been the behaviour of "lfs getstripe

{dir}", like "ls -l {dir}

" always lists the contents of the directory and not the directory itself. You can use "lfs getstripe -d

{dir}

" to return the striping on the directory itself. Per the lfs(1) man page:

              The default behavior when a directory is specified is to
              list the striping information for  all  files  within the
              specified  directory (like 'ls -l').  This can be expanded
              with --recursive which will recurse into all subdirectories.
              If you wish to get striping information for only the
              specified directory, then --directory can be used to limit
              the information, like 'ls -d').