[Lustre-discuss] Removing an OST

[Heiko Schroeter]

Hm, i do got it that one has to 'move' the file back. But ...

> > Copy the data on a client to a temp storage outside (does it has to be
> > outside?) the lustre system and 'move' them back into lustre to create
> > new inodes entries on the MDS.
>
> Actually, it should NOT be on storage outside Lustre in this case.
>

why staying inside lustre (in this case) ? (Bandwidth ?, Performance ?...)

What would be a different case/scenario that one has to go 'out' of lustre ?

Thanks and Regards
Heiko