[Lustre-discuss] Dedicated MGS?

[Jakob Goldbach]

> > 1. If we are going to have several Lustre file systems, is there any
> > reason not to create each one with its own combined MGS/MDT?
>
> Not that I'm aware of, with the restriction that you can only have a
> single MGS running on a node at a time.  If you have failover MDSes,
> then they need to share an MGS.
>

May a client mount different lustre-filsystems from different MGS's ?

The manual (sec 2.1.1) says "There should be one MGS per site, not one MGS
per file system."

I thought this meant a single MGS if a client want's to mount several
lustre-filesystems.

/Jakob