[Lustre-discuss] lustre file system with failover

[Dhruv]

On Jun 13, 1:53 pm, Johann Lombardi <joh... at sun.com> wrote:
> 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.

Is HA software compulsory? Does lustre inherently provides some
mechanism?

>
> http://manual.lustre.org/manual/LustreManual16_HTML/Failover.html#504...
>
> Johann
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