On Jun 17, 2008 12:40 -0700, Klaus Steden wrote: > I have a question ... if the MGS is used so infrequently relative to the use > of the MDS, why is it (is it?) problematic to locate it on the same volume > as the MDT?
If you have multiple MDTs on the same MDS node (i.e. multiple Lustre filesystems) then it is difficult to start up the MGS separately from the MDT if it is co-located with one of the MDTs. It isn't impossible (with some manual mounting of the underlying filesystems) to move a co-located MGS to a separate filesystem if needed. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc. _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list Lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss