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

[Klaus Steden]

At this point, recovery of the primary server is a manual process -- so in
the case of a failure, the secondary would assume service for the failed
node, which gets powered off; an administrator is required to intervene to
recover the primary.

Klaus

On 2/14/08 2:51 PM, "Andreas Dilger" <adilger at sun.com>did etch on stone
tablets:

> On Feb 14, 2008  11:17 -0800, Klaus Steden wrote:
>> Here's a mount line from our first OSS node:
>> 
>> LABEL=lustre-OST0000    /mnt/lustreost0         lustre  defaults        0 0
>> LABEL=lustre-OST0001    /mnt/lustreost1         lustre  defaults,noauto 0 0
>> 
>> It has a partner, and the lines in that fstab swap the 'noauto' flag.
> 
> Klaus, if you have the backup node mounting the filesystem because of
> primary server failure, how do you prevent the primary server from mounting
> the filesystem again as soon as it boots?
> 
> Cheers, Andreas
> --
> Andreas Dilger
> Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
> Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.
>