[Lustre-discuss] MGS disk size and activity

[Brian J. Murrell]

On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 12:40 -0700, Klaus Steden wrote:
>  
> I have a question ... if the MGS is used so infrequently relative to the use
> of the MDS, why is it (is it?) problematic to locate it on the same volume
> as the MDT?

Our mountconf expert engineers probably know all of the reasons but one
is that if you have multiple filesystems and you need to reformat the
MDT that is shared with the MGS for some reason, you end up losing
configuration logs for all of your filesystems.

b.

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