Brian, [snip]
> If the lost client has a transaction that needs to be replayed, all of > the transactions up to that missing transaction are replayed but all > subsequent transactions are discarded and when the recovery timer > expires, recovery is aborted. Thanks a lot for the details. So, even clients working on disjoint files/objects will experience that their data are lost when one client is lost during recovery ? Until 1.8.something, that is :) [snip] > Yes, that is the official statement and I don't think any further > testing has been done to change that statement, officially, but I think > the general feeling is that quiescence should not be necessary, but we > just don't have the scientific testing to be assured of that. > > So if you want to be safe, quiesce the filesystem first. :-) Well, if I can do that :-) Thanks again! Arne _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
