[Lustre-discuss] Registering OST with failover MGS.

[Kevin Van Maren]

Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 18:25 +0100, Daniel Kobras wrote:
>   
>> Hi!
>>     
>
> Hi.
>
>   
>> Sure, this tells me how to specify multiple NIDs of a single server, but
>> I'd like to configure the NIDs of two distinct servers in a failover
>> pair.
>>     
>
> No.  It's telling you that you can specify multiple servers' NIDs just
> like you can with the client mount command.
>
>   
>> I've tried that--as well as a comma- or colon-separated list of NIDs--,
>> but neither options appears to work: As soon as I try to mount the OST
>> partition with the MGS active on the secondary node, the mount fails,
>> and error messages indicate that only the primary MGS node is queried.
>> All systems are running Lustre version 1.6.6, by the way.
>>     
>
> Well, it should work as described.  Please try to find the bugzilla bug
> referencing a problem with this and see if it applies.  If not, please
> file a new bug.
>   

Probably referring to bug 15912, which was for "mkfs" issues, where the 
mgs option had to be
specified twice to indicate two different servers.

Kevin