Thankyou Andreas. This is perhaps the best and cleanest way to do this. But it seems I would need root access, right?
On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 5:22 PM, Andreas Dilger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 15, 2008 06:02 -0400, Mag Gam wrote: >> Hmm, where can I start looking into that? I would like to do this. I >> can contribute to the Wiki :-) > > The code used by the liblustre mount (lustre/lib/lustre/super.c) would be > the place to start for a userspace solution. That said, I don't know that > this is trivial work. > > You would likely be much better off to do something like ssh over to > the MGS node and look at the /proc/fs/lustre/mgs/MGS/live/ directory > to list the currently available filesystems. > >> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 2:27 AM, Andreas Dilger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On Sep 14, 2008 11:39 -0400, Mag Gam wrote: >> >> Is it possible to query a MGS by a client who does not have a lustre >> >> filesystem mounted? I am trying to find out what filesystems are being >> >> hosted on a particular MGS without trying to mount on a client. Is >> >> that possible? >> > >> > Not currently. It would be possible to write a small piece of code >> > do that. There isn't a requirement for a "mounted" filesystem, since >> > Lustre itself uses the MGC->MGS connection to retrieve the configuraion >> > data it needs to do the mount. > > Cheers, Andreas > -- > Andreas Dilger > Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group > Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc. > > _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
