[Lustre-discuss] mdt mgs ost's on same node?

[Oleg Drokin]

Hello!

On Nov 7, 2007, at 3:52 PM, Brock Palen wrote:

> We would like to run a mdt and mgs on a node that will also have
> devices providing some ost's  is this a problem?  Does it run into
> the same problems as a client thats also a server has leaving us in
> unrecoverable state?

Yes, this has similar recovery implications at the moment - this  
configuration will not have recovery working, because mds that is a  
client of ost is not available for replay. But we plan to fix this  
eventually.

Bye,
     Oleg