[Lustre-discuss] Lustre failover of MGS

[Kevin Van Maren]

Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 23:34 +0000, neil rutter wrote:
>   
>> kevin, brian,
>>
>> thanks to you both. i had a mkfs.lustre error, which after had been 
>> pointed out fixed the issue.
>>     
>
> Can you share the error here so that future searches of this problem are
> complete with a solution?
>
> There's nothing more frustrating than finding the same problem you are
> having in a mailing list archive and with no solution.  Actually there
> is something more frustrating and that's that the problem was solved but
> no details on how.
>
> Thanx,
> b.
>   
Come on, if we wanted to make it that easy, it would be in the manual ;-)

I gave Neil the correct mkfs commands:

mkfs.lustre --reformat --failnode=192.168.123.21 at tcp0 --mgs /dev/sdb
mkfs.lustre --reformat --fsname bananafs --failnode=192.168.123.21 at tcp0 
--mgsnode=192.168.123.20 at tcp0 --mgsnode=192.168.123.21 at tcp0 --mdt /dev/sdc

Kevin