[Lustre-discuss] automatic client startup on OSS's

Brian J. Murrell brian at clusterfs.com
Fri Oct 12 13:06:14 PDT 2007


On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 15:58 -0400, Joe Georger wrote:
> 
> In the Lustre 1.6 docs I see how to automatically start servers in
> /etc/fstab.  My servers are also clients.  Mounting clients in
> /etc/fstab seemed to hang everything.  I had to log into each OSS and
> mount the OST manually.  Then all was well.  So my question is - how can
> one reliably start clients that are also OSS's?

Perhaps I can make this a moot issue.  We recommend against running
clients on OSSes as memory pressure between the two can lead to
deadlocks.

b.





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