Re: [Lustre-discuss] how to reuse OST indices (EADDRINUSE)

2010-12-21 Thread Andreas Dilger
On 2010-12-21, at 8:58, Charles Taylor tay...@hpc.ufl.edu wrote: So we are evacuating all the OSTs, replacing the Areca 1680ix cards with Adaptec 51645s, re-initializing the LUNs, reformatting the LUNs as OSTs (using the same OST index as before) and remounting them.That is the plan

Re: [Lustre-discuss] how to reuse OST indices (EADDRINUSE)

2010-12-21 Thread Charles Taylor
On Dec 21, 2010, at 12:39 PM, Andreas Dilger wrote: It's unfortunate that you didn't see the thread from a few weeks ago that discussed this exact topic of OST replacement. Agreed. :( It should get a section in the manual I think. Agreed. This file is at /O/0/LAST_ID (capital 'o' then

Re: [Lustre-discuss] how to reuse OST indices (EADDRINUSE)

2010-12-20 Thread Wang Yibin
Hello, Did you backup old magic files (last_rcvd, LAST_ID, CONFIG/*) from the original OSTs and put them back before trying to mount them? You probably didn't do that. So when you remount the OSTs with existing index, the MGS will refuse to add them without being told to writeconf, hence