[Lustre-discuss] Lustre mount problem

[Frank Mietke]

Hi Bernd,

> > I could live with a "dead" OST in the configuration but as I've written in
> > the update, every call to a proc-entry of this OST on the clients hangs
> > forever. Not really optimal.
> 
> you very first approach to set the re-created ost to the old index was 
> actually the right way to go. In you present situation I would create another 
> very very small ost and set it to the old index number. 
> 
> Lustre will again refuse to re-register this ost, but there is way to convice 
> it not to complain. Here is what I already wrote to the list, when I run into 
> the same problem as you:
> 
> <quote of myself from 2008-02-05 21:45 "Re: [Lustre-discuss] how to recreate 
> an OST?">
> 
...

> I never got an reply of sun/clusterfs developers if this is the right 
> filesystem, but I have tested it several times and it seems to be the right 
> way to go.

thank you. I read this article in the mailing list history but as you mentioned
there was no reply from sun/clusterfs. Now I'm creating a Lustre test setup and
play a bit around with this before I doing it on our production system. ;)

Thanks,
Frank

> 
> 
> Hope it helps,
> Bernd
> 
> -- 
> Bernd Schubert
> Q-Leap Networks GmbH
> 

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