[Lustre-discuss] querying a MGS

[Andreas Dilger]

On Sep 14, 2008  11:39 -0400, Mag Gam wrote:
> Is it possible to query a MGS by a client who does not have a lustre
> filesystem mounted? I am trying to find out what filesystems are being
> hosted on a particular MGS without trying to mount on a client. Is
> that possible?

Not currently.  It would be possible to write a small piece of code
do that.  There isn't a requirement for a "mounted" filesystem, since
Lustre itself uses the MGC->MGS connection to retrieve the configuraion
data it needs to do the mount.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.