On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 16:03 +0900, Kazuki Ohara wrote: > Hi Brain, > Thank you for your answer. NP. > By the way, I doubt the need of the --failnode directive. It's needed. That is how the MGS and thusly all other nodes learn of an OSS's failover partner. This information is communicated via the mkfs.lustre command to the MGS. b.