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Wei,

Is there a way to drain an xrootd server without bringing it offline?  (stopping xrootd/cmsd on a production server is not an option unfortunately)

-Nate

On Jan 9, 2012, at 3:04 AM, Yang, Wei wrote:

> Here is another way to do this, on the "faulty" data sever (obviously, it can't be complete faulty, otherwise you can't login and do anything)
> 
> stop xrootd/cmsd
> find storage_root_path -type f | while read file; do
>    dstfile=`remove local_root from $file`
>    xrdcp $file root://your_redirector/$dstfile
> done
> 
> you can speed up the process by making a more sophisticated script using xprep, etc.
> 
> regards,
> Wei Yang  |  [log in to unmask]  |  650-926-3338(O)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Jan 9, 2012, at 12:41 AM, Andrew Hanushevsky wrote:
> 
>> Hi Doug,
>> 
>> The short answer is no. On the positive side, we will submit an ASCR 
>> proposal to allow that.
>> 
>> Andy
>> 
>> P.S. The current model is that missing files from a faulty data server 
>> would be automatically copied in on other servers when so requested. That 
>> is a reasonable model is you assume that te ailure rate is relatively 
>> small.
>> 
>> On Sat, 7 Jan 2012, Doug Benjamin wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> Are there any xrootd commands to drain a faulty data server of files 
>>> and distribute them across the
>>> rest of the data servers in the storage system.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> Doug Benjamin
>>> 
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