[Lustre-discuss] how do you mount mountconf (i.e. 1.6) lustre on your servers?

[Nicholas Henke]

Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> As any of you using version 1.6 of Lustre knows, Lustre servers can now
> be started simply my mounting the devices it is using.  Even
> an /etc/fstab entry can be used if you can have the mount delayed until
> the network is started.
> 
> Given this change, you have also notices that we have eliminated the
> initscript for Lustre that used to exist for releases prior to 1.6.
> 
> I'd like to take a small survey on how those of you using mountconf
> (1.6) are managing the mounting of your Lustre devices on the servers.
> The obvious choices are:
> 
>       * /etc/fstab
>       * home-grown initscript
>       * heartbeat managed
>       * other


We are using a hacked up lustre_config (see bug 14095 & friends). I'm 
predicting that we'll continue on that path, adding features that were 
in lconf as we go. The centralized command & control are important 
features for us.

We have a separate platform specific heartbeat. We will be adding a 
'lconf --service' type approach for lustre_config in the near future to 
enable automatic failover on Lustre 1.6

Nic