[Lustre-discuss] lustre & ypbind

[Robert Olson]

On Apr 1, 2009, at 10:04 AM, Ulrich Sibiller wrote:

> Guy Coates schrieb:
>> Brian J. Murrell wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 17:00 -0500, Robert Olson wrote:
>>>> here's an odd one. Had a client system reboot, and when it came  
>>>> back
>>>> ypbind was listening on port 988 and a lustre start complained  
>>>> bitterly:
>>> ...
>>>
>>>> Has anyone run into this?
>>> Yes.
>>>
>> You can work around it with the portreserve package.
>>
>> http://cyberelk.net/tim/software/portreserve/
>
> Simply ensure the lustre modules are loaded as early as possible. We  
> use the following service
> script for that purpose.

Thank you to all for your suggestions. In particular the one above  
jogs my memory - I had done exactly that in a previous test  
incarnation of a lustre service here by hacking a "modprobe lustre"  
into the ypbind startup script. Having an actual startup script to do  
it is just a little cleaner :-).

--bob