[Lustre-discuss] How to remove OST permanently?

[Brian J. Murrell]

On Fri, 2007-11-23 at 12:01 -0600, D. Dante Lorenso wrote:
> All,
> 
> I've added a new 2.2 TB OST to my cluster easily enough, but this new 
> disk array is meant to replace several smaller OSTs that I used to have 
> of which were only 120 GB, 500 GB, and 700 GB.
> 
> Adding an OST is easy, but how do I REMOVE the small OSTs that I no 
> longer want to be part of my cluster?  Is there a command to tell luster 
> to move all the file stripes off one of the nodes?

I answered a very similar question not that long ago (i.e. last couple
of weeks) on this list.  Check the archives linked off the main list
page listed in the footer of this message.

b.