https://jira.whamcloud.com This file is an XML representation of an issue en-us 9.4.14 940014 05-12-2023 https://jira.whamcloud.com/browse/LU-14210 Lustre <p>It would be useful, and probably more intuitive, if "<tt>lfs migrate -m</tt>" only migrated the specified directory and required a "<tt>-r</tt>" option to recursively migrate the subdirectory tree. Alternately, "<tt>lfs migrate -d -m</tt>" could be used to migrate only the specified directory. </p> LU-14210

DNE3: "lfs migrate -m" should allow-non-recursive migration

Improvement Minor Resolved Duplicate WC Triage Andreas Dilger dne3 Mon, 14 Dec 2020 20:58:32 +0000 Tue, 5 Oct 2021 21:18:40 +0000 Tue, 5 Oct 2021 21:18:40 +0000 0 2 <p>If I understand correctly, "<tt>lfs setsirstripe</tt>" on an existing directory (in 2.14) will migrate the directory <b>entries</b> of that directory only, which is what I think is needed here. However, it seems confusing that this is not possible with "<tt>lfs migrate</tt>"?</p> <p>I'm wondering when will user want to do this with <tt>"lfs migrate"</tt>, and instead of allowing <tt>"lfs migrate"</tt> to migrate dirent only, it makes more sense to allow <tt>"lfs setdirstripe"</tt> to restripe an existing directory to specific MDTs (for splitting only, and the target MDTs should contain all the MDTs used by current stripes).</p> <p>Duplicates <a href="https://jira.whamcloud.com/browse/LU-14975" title="DNE3: directory migration in non-recursive mode" class="issue-link" data-issue-key="LU-14975"><del>LU-14975</del></a>, which already has a patch.</p> Duplicate LU-14975 Related LU-14366 LU-13076 Development Rank 1|i01h33: Rank (Obsolete) 9223372036854775807