[Lustre-discuss] how to recreate an OST?

[Bernd Schubert]

On Tuesday 05 February 2008 19:30:46 Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> 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.


Thanks for your help, but that doesn't help either :( Same error message as 
before.


Cheers,
Bernd