[Lustre-discuss] Failover Setup MDS/MDT

[Brian J. Murrell]

On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 07:36 +0200, Heiko Schroeter wrote:
> 
> How can one determine the size for the MDT partition or is that the same as 
> the MDS device ?
> (As far as i can see the MDT takes the DIR info etc. So it should be larger 
> than the MDS.)

An MDT is the device (i.e. the disk) that Lustre in an MDS (the server)
uses to manage the metadata.  Maybe that clears it up?

b.

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