[Lustre-discuss] lustre file system with failover

[Johann Lombardi]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 01:07:56PM +0100, trupti shete wrote:
> I am having the following scenario of lustre file system--
> MDT- /dev/sdc on node1 and failnode node2
[...]
> If client1 opens a file to write and at that time if I umount the MDT (which
> will be mounted on node1) will node2 take care of?

Just in case it is not clear, you need to remount the mdt on node2 by hand
or configure an external HA software (like Heartbeat/linux-HA) to manage the
failover.

http://manual.lustre.org/manual/LustreManual16_HTML/Failover.html#50446391_pgfId-5529

Johann