Hi Bernd, > > I could live with a "dead" OST in the configuration but as I've written in > > the update, every call to a proc-entry of this OST on the clients hangs > > forever. Not really optimal. > > you very first approach to set the re-created ost to the old index was > actually the right way to go. In you present situation I would create another > very very small ost and set it to the old index number. > > Lustre will again refuse to re-register this ost, but there is way to convice > it not to complain. Here is what I already wrote to the list, when I run into > the same problem as you: > > <quote of myself from 2008-02-05 21:45 "Re: [Lustre-discuss] how to recreate > an OST?"> > ...
> I never got an reply of sun/clusterfs developers if this is the right > filesystem, but I have tested it several times and it seems to be the right > way to go. thank you. I read this article in the mailing list history but as you mentioned there was no reply from sun/clusterfs. Now I'm creating a Lustre test setup and play a bit around with this before I doing it on our production system. ;) Thanks, Frank > > > Hope it helps, > Bernd > > -- > Bernd Schubert > Q-Leap Networks GmbH > -- Dipl.-Inf. Frank Mietke | Fakultätsrechen- und Informationszentrum Tel.: 0371 - 531 - 35538 | Fak. für Informatik Fax: 0371 - 531 8 35538 | TU-Chemnitz Key-ID: 60F59599 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
