[Lustre-discuss] querying a MGS

[Mag Gam]

Hmm, where can I start looking into that? I would like to do this. I
can contribute to the Wiki :-)


On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 2:27 AM, Andreas Dilger <adilger at sun.com> wrote:
> 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
> --
> Andreas Dilger
> Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
> Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.
>
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