[Lustre-discuss] OST retirement

[Arne Wiebalck]

Hi Ramiro,

I did the retirement on a test setup, just to familiarize myself
with the procedure of draining and retiring/replacing OSSs.
The test installation is a  1.8.0.1 Lustre with 40 active and
12 inactive OSTs ;-)

Cheers,
  Arne




Ramiro Alba Queipo wrote:
> Arne,
> 
> This is the same question I've put two months ago, with no answer. Which
> kind of installation do you have?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 15:21 +0200, Arne Wiebalck wrote:
>> Dear list,
>>
>> is there a way to see the difference whether I deactivated
>> an OST filesystem-wide by
>>
>> lctl --device 15 conf_param pps-OST000a.osc.active=0
>>
>>    or only locally by
>>
>> lctl set_param osc.pps-OST000a-osc.active=0?
>>
>> And: After deactivation, I see the OSTs still on the device
>> list (as inactive): is there a way to completely remove them,
>> so that new clients would have no idea they ever existed (and
>> the uuids get eventually reused)?
>>
>> TIA,
>>   Arne
>>
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