Hi, General question: I know that a Lustre filesystem may have only one MGS running in-general and only one MDS for a specific lustre filesystem (for example, /usrdisk and /admin1). Is there a way in which a Lustre filesystem may have one MGS and one MDS which runs on another machine in the network?
I have an MGS/MDS combo running right now. I wish to add more disk space to our Lustre clients, in this case as scratch space (not backed up and cleaned out regularly). I have no disks available in the current MGS/MDS on which to create an MDT for the new /scr1 disk. Can I point the MGS to use a disk physically on another computer as the MDT? Lower priority question: Is lustre a good tool for such a user scratch disk system? I selected lustre because it's fast and mounts everywhere in our group. If yes, may I combine, say one scratch disk from computerA as an ost with fsname myscr and one scratch disk from computerB as an ost with fsname myscr and have them used by the myscr MDT (the OST's will not be on the same OSS)? Enjoy your day, megan _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
