Hi, I am very interested in finding out how to move co-located MGS to separate disk. I will be moving my MDTs to new hardware soon and I would like to separate MGS from MDT. I will be grateful for some info on this subject please.
Many thanks, Wojciech 2008/6/23 Andreas Dilger <adil...@sun.com> > On Jun 17, 2008 12:40 -0700, Klaus Steden wrote: > > I have a question ... if the MGS is used so infrequently relative to the > use > > of the MDS, why is it (is it?) problematic to locate it on the same > volume > > as the MDT? > > If you have multiple MDTs on the same MDS node (i.e. multiple Lustre > filesystems) then it is difficult to start up the MGS separately from > the MDT if it is co-located with one of the MDTs. It isn't impossible > (with some manual mounting of the underlying filesystems) to move a > co-located MGS to a separate filesystem if needed. > > Cheers, Andreas > -- > Andreas Dilger > Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group > Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc. > > _______________________________________________ > Lustre-discuss mailing list > Lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org > http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss > -- -- Wojciech Turek Assistant System Manager High Performance Computing Service University of Cambridge Email: wj...@cam.ac.uk Tel: (+)44 1223 763517
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