[Lustre-discuss] Question about failnode

[Cliff White]

Klaus Steden wrote:
>>> who does need to get and use the information of the partner that is hold by
>>> the MGS?
>> Clients of course.  A client needs to know that for a given OST
>> "service" that alternate paths (i.e. OSTs) can be used to reach it.
>>
> How are clients informed (i.e. what's the mechanism) when a given OSS or MDS
> node stops responding ... or is that something a STONITH framework would
> have to take care of?
> 

The client request will time out, and it will retry with the alternate 
path. There is no notification process.
cliffw

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