[Lustre-discuss] recreate metada - possible?

[Wolfgang Stief]

Hi Tom!

On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:28:18 +0200
Tom Woezel <twoezel at it.dcs.ch> wrote:
> 
> Or maybe there is a way to get my hands on the data which is on the  
> OSTs? Some way to mount it without MGS and MDT maybe?
> 
> If this is possible I could just recreate everything from scratch.

Well... for my understanding, the OST is a plain ext3 partition. So
mounting the partition locally as ext3 should work fine. In case you
didn't use striping on the filesystem (which is the default), you
should be able to access all the files of a single OST.


wolfgang