[Lustre-discuss] filesystem UID' GID's

[Jakob Goldbach]

On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 09:01 -0400, Brock Palen wrote:
> Does a /etc/passwd with all the filesystem users UID's required only  
> on the MDS ?  Or does the OST's need them also?

MDS only. But this is not needed either if you

mds# echo NONE >  proc/fs/lustre/mds/<fsname>-MDT0000/group_upcall

Then you only need uid/gid to be available on all clients.

/Jakob