[Lustre-discuss] Start with GigE; Move to IB

[Brian J. Murrell]

On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 15:39 -0500, David Bogen wrote:
> 
> As we plan our Lustre rollout, we're contemplating using GigE for our  
> initial topology and replacing that with IB six months to a year down  
> the line.  Can that be done without rebuilding the filesystem and  
> associated metadata stores?  Will that be a relatively straightforward  
> replacement process or are we looking at a complicated changeover when  
> we move to IB?

That can be done quite easily.  You want to look for the "changing a
server NID" entry in the manual.

b.

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