On 2010-09-17, at 12:42, Jonathan B. Horen wrote:
> We're trying to architect a Lustre setup for our group, and want to leverage 
> our available resources. In doing so, we've come to consider multi-purposing 
> several hosts, so that they'll function simultaneously as MDS & OSS.

You can't do this and expect recovery to work in a robust manner.  The reason 
is that the MDS is a client of the OSS, and if they are both on the same node 
that crashes, the OSS will wait for the MDS "client" to reconnect and will time 
out recovery of the real clients.


Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Lustre Technical Lead
Oracle Corporation Canada Inc.

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