On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Brian J. Murrell<[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 10:52 -0500, Carlos Santana wrote: >> Can a lustre file system have more than one MGS? > > No. It can have multiple failover paths to a single MGS, but max. 1 MGS > per filesystem. > >> Isn't it only one per >> site? > > It can be, and that's how it was designed. IOW, a single MGS can serve > multiple filesystems. > >> I saw some examples where target type mgs was mentioned during >> mkfs.lustre for MDS and OSS nodes. > > Yes. You have to tell the MDSes and OSSes (and clients, via their mount > target) where the MGS(es, for failover) are. I know we need to specify --mgsnode, however I saw target type '--mgs' being specified on MGS and OSS. May be it was for failover.
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