[Lustre-discuss] Bug 15912

[Bernd Schubert]

On Tuesday 19 August 2008 03:57:55 Brock Palen wrote:
> Ignore,
>
> After days of banging head against the wall and trying to use
> tunefs.lustre  which appears to maybe suffer from the same bug.  I
> found the alternative that specifying --mgsnode=  more than once was
> valid.  This mixed with the wonderful --print option to mkfs.lustre
> I think I have my work around.
>
> mkfs.lustre --reformat --ost --fsname=nobackup --mgsnode=mds1 --
> mgsnode=mds2 --mkfsoptions -j "-J device=/dev/md27"  /dev/md17

Yes, this way I also do it all the time.

>
> Thanks,
> Though I am scared about behavior of tunefs.lustre if we ever needed
> to re-ip the nodes. Re-formating is not really an option.

But tunefs.lustre also accepts more than one "--mgsnode".


Cheers,
Bernd

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Bernd Schubert
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