On Aug 17, 2007 15:35 -0500, Jeremy Mann wrote: > Is the purpose of the failover OST to provide write and read access or > just read? I set up 2 OSTs with 2 failovers. If I pull the network cable > from one of the OSTs, I can read from the Lustre filesystem, but not write > to it.
Lustre failover is active-passive. Until either the primary or backup OST recovers the filesystem it won't do anything. You are likely reading from the client cache. You also need to set up your own HA mechanism for OST failover, that is not part of Lustre. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc. _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.clusterfs.com/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
