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Cluster File System Migration Utility

Tool

Abstract

Cluster File System Migration Utility is the tool to help migrate files from scale-out file system to cluster file system.

Description

This Cluster File System Migration Utility will migrate files from scale-out file system to cluster file system.

 

Following tools are included into this utility:

  • migrate_file.py : This is the main utility which performs the task of copying files from source FS to destination CFS.All all the attributes and extended attributes of the files are copied. It uses vxfs_xattr_util program internally.
  • vxfs_xattr_util: It is a companion binary used by the migrate_file.py utility.
  • unconfig_s3bucket.py: Program to unmap FS from s3bucket database.

 

This Cluster File System Migration Utility will migrate files from scale-out file system cluster file system (CFS).

 

Tools within this utility

  • migrate_file.py : This is the main utility which performs the task of copying files from source file system to destination CFS. All the attributes and extended attributes of the files are copied. It uses vxfs_xattr_util program internally.
  • vxfs_xattr_util: It is a companion binary used by the migrate_file.py utility.
  • unconfig_s3bucket.py: Program to unmap FS from s3bucket database.

 

To use this utility

./migrate_file.py -src SRC -dest DEST

where
    src - SourceFS name
    dest - CFS name

./unconfig_s3bucket.py <FS_name>

where
    FS_name - Filesystem name to be removed from s3bucket mapping.

 

Limitations/Known issues

 

  • If the TFS has a sparse file then holes in the original sparse file will get filled with the zeroes when it is migrated to CFS.
  • Hardlink on TFS will be created as a normal file after migration to CFS.

 

Applies to the following product releases

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