[Lustre-discuss] OST errors caused by residual client info?

[Oleg Drokin]

Hello!

On Dec 6, 2010, at 6:50 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> Previous test incarnations of this filesystem were built where ost name 
> was not assigned (e.g.: OSTFFFF) and was assigned upon first mount and 
> connection to the mds. Is it possible that some clients have residual 
> pointers or config data about the previously built file systems?

If you did not unmount clients from the previous incarnation of the filesystem,
those clients would still continue to try to contact the servers they know about even
after the servers themselves go away and are repurposed (since there is no way for the
client to know about this).

Bye,
    Oleg