OSTs are also identified by a file on each OST's filesystem called "last_rcvd".
To rename the OSTs you need to change the name in the xml file and also on the OST itself. See this article for more info on how to do this- https://mail.clusterfs.com/wikis/lustre/LustreDebugging#head-61cc172832262284f7e960e8e1d49eac9202ae46 -Aaron On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 10:14:52AM -0600, Smith, Ken wrote: > For Lustre 1.4.7.x, are OSTs identified solely by the order in which > they appear in the xml configuration file? In other words, would it be > possible to arbitrarily rename OSTs as long as the order in which they > were added to the xml configuration file by lmc was preserved (including > failover ordering, etc)? > > Cheers, > Ken Smith > > _______________________________________________ > Lustre-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.clusterfs.com/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss > _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.clusterfs.com/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
