[Lustre-discuss] Replacing OSTs

[Mag Gam]

I suggest creating a new filesystem and rsync the data over the
network. I would not over complicate the situation.

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Rayentray Tappa
<rtappa.ascentio at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi List!
>
> As you may already know :) I'm now trying a lustre installation on a
> mass storage prototype. I'll soon be receiving two servers which will be
> my future mdt + mgs and mdt failover respectively, and I'm thinking of
> reusing the hw I'm currently using for the prototype to act as OSTs
> while my definite hw arrives.
> I asked in #lustre and got two ideas:
> a) build another lustre filesystem when the definite hardware arrives,
> mount both on a client and copy the contents, which needs extra hw and
> settings
> b) when the new hw arrives, mirror the contents of the old disks in the
> new ones.
>
> Which one would you suggest? Do you have any other ideas? I'm still
> dealing with the prototype, trying different configurations, but I'd
> like to know what I'll need to deal with when I start configuring the
> final version.
>
> Thanks a lot for sharing your ideas,
>
> --
> ra
>
> _______________________________________________
> Lustre-discuss mailing list
> Lustre-discuss at lists.lustre.org
> http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
>