[Lustre-discuss] What do clients run on?

Wojciech Turek wjt27 at cam.ac.uk
Sat Jan 10 15:24:27 PST 2009


MGS is not the same as MDS but usually these are running on one machine. 
If you  have dedicated server for MGS it can serve as client. In most 
cases MDS can be used as client too but not OSS(s)

Arden Wiebe wrote:
> So if MGS is trivial load then I can safely mount client there?
>
> --- On *Sat, 1/10/09, Kevin Van Maren /<Kevin.Vanmaren at Sun.COM>/* wrote:
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>
>     From: Kevin Van Maren <Kevin.Vanmaren at Sun.COM>
>     Subject: Re: [Lustre-discuss] What do clients run on?
>     To: "Arden Wiebe" <albert682 at yahoo.com>
>     Cc: "lustre-discuss at lists.lustre.org"
>     <lustre-discuss at lists.lustre.org>
>     Date: Saturday, January 10, 2009, 1:26 PM
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>     It's normally phrased as dedicated server machines, but yes:
>     running thw client on MDS or OSS can (and does) deadlock under low
>     memory conditions.
>
>     MGS is a trivial load and is normally on MDS node.
>
>     Kevin
>
>     On Jan 10, 2009, at 1:51 PM, Arden Wiebe <albert682 at yahoo.com
>     </mc/compose?to=albert682 at yahoo.com>> wrote:
>
>     > I've read it a zillion times but can't seem to find it again. 
>     Can a client run on the same server as a MGS, MDT or OSS?  Is a
>     dedicated client machines necessary?
>     >
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