[Lustre-discuss] how to recreate an OST?

Brian J. Murrell Brian.Murrell at Sun.COM
Tue Feb 5 10:30:46 PST 2008


On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 18:29 +0100, Bernd Schubert wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> lets assume there had been a severe hardware failure and an entire OST was 
> lost. Now I simply want to recreate this OST - I run mkfs.lustre and 
> tunefs.lustre --index={old index of the lost ost}.
> Now on mounting this OST mount.lustre and the MGS complain this index is 
> already in use. Nice, but how can I convince it the action I try to do is  
> correct? tunefs.lustre --writeconf /dev/mgsdevice doesn't help.

Put the "--writeconf --index <num>" on the mkfs.lustre command for the
OST.

b.

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