ais storage command supports the following subcommands:

$ ais storage <TAB-TAB>
cleanup     disk        mountpath   summary     validate

Alternatively (or in addition), run with --help to view subcommands and short descriptions, both:

$ ais storage --help
NAME:
   ais storage - monitor and manage clustered storage

USAGE:
   ais storage command [command options] [arguments...]

COMMANDS:
   show       show storage usage and utilization, disks and mountpaths
   summary    show bucket sizes and %% of used capacity on a per-bucket basis
   validate   check buckets for misplaced objects and objects that have insufficient numbers of copies or EC slices
   mountpath  show and attach/detach target mountpaths
   disk       show disk utilization and read/write statistics
   cleanup    perform storage cleanup: remove deleted objects and old/obsolete workfiles

OPTIONS:
   --help, -h  show help

As always, each subcommand (above) will have its own help and usage examples - the latter possibly spread across multiple markdowns.

You can easily look up examples and descriptions of any keyword via a simple find, for instance:

$ find . -type f -name "*.md" | xargs grep "ais.*mountpath"

Table of Contents

Storage cleanup

$ ais storage cleanup --help
NAME:
   ais storage cleanup - remove deleted objects and old/obsolete workfiles; remove misplaced objects; optionally, remove zero size objects

USAGE:
   ais storage cleanup [command options] PROVIDER:[//BUCKET_NAME]

OPTIONS:
   --force, -f      disregard interrupted rebalance and possibly other conditions preventing full cleanup
                    (tip: check 'ais config cluster lru.dont_evict_time' as well)
   --rm-zero-size   remove zero-size objects (caution: advanced usage only)
   --wait           wait for an asynchronous operation to finish (optionally, use '--timeout' to limit the waiting time)
   --timeout value  maximum time to wait for a job to finish; if omitted: wait forever or until Ctrl-C;
                    valid time units: ns, us (or µs), ms, s (default), m, h
   --help, -h       show help

Similar to all supported batch operations (aka xactions), cleanup runs asynchronously and can be monitored during its run, e.g.:

# ais storage cleanup
Started storage cleanup "BlpmlObF8", use 'ais job show xaction BlpmlObF8' to monitor the progress

Further references:

Show capacity usage

For command line options and usage examples, please refer to:

Validate in-cluster content for misplaced objects and missing copies

$ ais scrub --help
NAME:
   ais scrub - (alias for "storage validate") check in-cluster content for misplaced objects, objects that have insufficient numbers of copies, zero size, and more
   e.g.:
     * ais storage validate                 - validate all in-cluster buckets;
     * ais scrub                            - same as above;
     * ais storage validate ais             - validate (a.k.a. scrub) all ais buckets;
     * ais scrub s3                         - all s3 buckets present in the cluster;
     * ais scrub s3 --refresh 10            - same as above while refreshing runtime counter(s) every 10s;
     * ais scrub gs://abc/images/           - validate part of the gcp bucket under 'images/`;
     * ais scrub gs://abc --prefix images/  - same as above.

USAGE:
   ais scrub [command options] [BUCKET[/PREFIX]] or [PROVIDER]

OPTIONS:
   --refresh value        time interval for continuous monitoring; can be also used to update progress bar (at a given interval);
                          valid time units: ns, us (or µs), ms, s (default), m, h
   --count value          used together with '--refresh' to limit the number of generated reports, e.g.:
                           '--refresh 10 --count 5' - run 5 times with 10s interval (default: 0)
   --prefix value         for each bucket, select only those objects (names) that start with the specified prefix, e.g.:
                          '--prefix a/b/c' - sum-up sizes of the virtual directory a/b/c and objects from the virtual directory
                          a/b that have names (relative to this directory) starting with the letter c
   --page-size value      maximum number of object names per page; when the flag is omitted or 0 (zero)
                          the maximum is defined by the corresponding backend; see also '--max-pages' and '--paged' (default: 0)
   --limit value          maximum number of object names to list (0 - unlimited; see also '--max-pages')
                          e.g.: 'ais ls gs://abc --limit 1234 --cached --props size,custom (default: 0)
   --no-headers, -H       display tables without headers
   --max-pages value      maximum number of pages to display (see also '--page-size' and '--limit')
                          e.g.: 'ais ls az://abc --paged --page-size 123 --max-pages 7 (default: 0)
   --non-recursive, --nr  non-recursive operation, e.g.:
                          'ais ls gs://bucket/prefix --nr'  -  list objects and/or virtual subdirectories with names starting with the specified prefix;
                          'ais ls gs://bucket/prefix/ --nr' -  list contained objects and/or immediately nested virtual subdirectories _without_ recursing into the latter;
                          'ais prefetch s3://bck/abcd --nr' -  prefetch a single named object (see 'ais prefetch --help' for details);
                          'ais rmo gs://bucket/prefix --nr' -  remove a single object with the specified name (see 'ais rmo --help' for details)
   --small-size value     count and report all objects that are smaller or equal in size (e.g.: 4, 4b, 1k, 128kib; default: 0)
   --large-size value     count and report all objects that are larger or equal in size  (e.g.: 4mb, 1MiB, 1048576, 128k; default: 5 GiB)
   --help, -h             show help

Checks all objects of the bucket BUCKET and show number of misplaced objects, number of objects that have insufficient number of copies, etc.

If optional arguments are omitted, show information about all in-cluster buckets.

Example: validate a given (prefix-defined) portion of s3 bucket

$ ais storage validate s3://abc/birds

Please wait, the operation may take some time...

BUCKET          OBJECTS     MISPLACED   MISSING COPIES  ZERO SIZE  5+GB
s3://abc        84603       0           0               0          329

Example: same as above

$ ais storage validate s3://abc --prefix birds

Example: validate all ais:// buckets

$ ais storage validate ais

BUCKET          OBJECTS     MISPLACED   MISSING COPIES  ZERO SIZE  5+GB
ais://aa        12345       0           0               0          678
ais://bb        67890       0           0               0          901
...
...

Mountpath (and disk) management

There are two related commands:

  • ais storage disk
  • ais storage mountpath

where mountpath is a higher-level abstraction that typically “utilizes” a single undivided disk. More exactly:

A mountpath is a single disk or a volume (a RAID) formatted with a local filesystem of choice, and a local directory that AIS utilizes to store user data and AIS metadata. A mountpath can be disabled and (re)enabled, automatically or administratively, at any point during runtime. In a given cluster, a total number of mountpaths would normally compute as a direct product of (number of storage targets) x (number of disks in each target).

You can manage and monitor (i.e., show) disks and mountpaths using ais storage command.

For strictly monitoring purposes, you can universally use ais show command, e.g.: ais show storage disk, etc.

Show disks

ais storage disk show [TARGET_ID]

or, same:

ais show storage disk [TARGET_ID]

Show mountpaths

As the name implies, the syntax:

ais show storage mountpath [TARGET_ID]

for example:

$ ais show storage mountpath t[TqPtghbiRw]

TqPtghbiRw
        Used Capacity (all disks): avg 15% max 18%
                                                /ais/mp1/2 /dev/nvme0n1(xfs)
                                                /ais/mp2/2 /dev/nvme1n1(xfs)
                                                /ais/mp3/2 /dev/nvme2n1(xfs)
                                                /ais/mp4/2 /dev/nvme3n1(xfs)

As always, --help will also list supported options. Note in particular the option to run continuously and periodically:

$ ais show storage mountpath --help
NAME:
   ais show storage mountpath - show target mountpaths

USAGE:
   ais show storage mountpath [command options] [TARGET_ID]

OPTIONS:
   --refresh value  interval for continuous monitoring;
                    valid time units: ns, us (or µs), ms, s (default), m, h
   --count value    used together with '--refresh' to limit the number of generated reports (default: 0)
   --json, -j       json input/output
   --help, -h       show help

Show mountpaths for a given target or all targets.

Ease of Usage notice: like all other ais show commands, ais show storage mountpath is an alias (or a shortcut) - in this specific case - for ais storage mountpath show.

Examples (slightly outdated)

$ ais storage mountpath show 12356t8085
247389t8085
        Available:
			/tmp/ais/5/3
			/tmp/ais/5/1
        Disabled:
			/tmp/ais/5/2

$ ais storage mountpath show
12356t8085
        Available:
			/tmp/ais/5/3
			/tmp/ais/5/1
        Disabled:
			/tmp/ais/5/2
147665t8084
        Available:
			/tmp/ais/4/3
			/tmp/ais/4/1
			/tmp/ais/4/2
426988t8086
	No mountpaths

Attach mountpath

ais storage mountpath attach TARGET_ID=MOUNTPATH [DAEMONID=MOUNTPATH...]

Attach a mountpath on a specified target to AIS storage.

Examples

$ ais storage mountpath attach 12367t8080=/data/dir

Detach mountpath

ais storage mountpath detach TARGET_ID=MOUNTPATH [DAEMONID=MOUNTPATH...]

Detach a mountpath on a specified target from AIS storage.

Examples

$ ais storage mountpath detach 12367t8080=/data/dir