[Lustre-discuss] client mount entry for fstab with Active/Passive MGS/MDS

Lundgren, Andrew Andrew.Lundgren at Level3.com
Thu Apr 2 14:11:19 PDT 2009


Thanks!  I think I had a parameter problem when I formatted the mgs.  I am re-doing that now.

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Andrew

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeffrey Bennett [mailto:jab at sdsc.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 3:13 PM
> To: Lundgren, Andrew; Lustre discuss
> Subject: RE: [Lustre-discuss] client mount entry for fstab with
> Active/Passive MGS/MDS
> 
> Andrew,
> 
> This is how I use it:
> 
> # mount -t lustre mds-0-0 at tcp0:mds-0-1 at tcp0:/npfs /mnt/npfs
> 
> So /etc/fstab would be something like:
> 
> mds-0-0 at tcp0:mds-0-1 at tcp0:/npfs /mnt/npfs lustre ...whatever...
> 
> 
> Note that mds-0-0 and mds-0-1 are also MGS, despite their name.
> 
> 
> jab
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________
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> 	From: lustre-discuss-bounces at lists.lustre.org [mailto:lustre-
> discuss-bounces at lists.lustre.org] On Behalf Of Lundgren, Andrew
> 	Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 1:36 PM
> 	To: Lustre discuss
> 	Subject: [Lustre-discuss] client mount entry for fstab with
> Active/Passive MGS/MDS
> 
> 
> 
> 	I have a single MDT/MGT that is hosted on a pair of MGS/MDS
> machines acting as a failover pair.  Both MDS/MGS machines have
> visibility to the shared MDT/MGT.  One of the two machines has the FS
> mounted, the other does not.
> 
> 
> 
> 	On my client side I have the following in my fstab:
> 
> 
> 
> 	10.248.58.101 at tcp0:10.248.58.100 at tcp0:/content     /content
> lustre  defaults,_netdev 0 0
> 
> 
> 
> 	I have also tried separating the machines with a "," but it
> hasn't made any run difference.  There is a difference in
> /var/log/messages, but either way, it doesn't work.
> 
> 
> 
> 	Should I be using the , or the :?  Is my syntax correct?
> 
> 
> 
> 	Thanks!
> 
> 
> 
> 	--
> 
> 	Andrew




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