[Lustre-discuss] killing lfs_migrate

Ashley Pittman apittman at ddn.com
Mon Feb 27 11:56:40 PST 2012


On 27 Feb 2012, at 19:52, Brock Palen wrote:
>> I'd also consider mounting the FS as a client on the server which hosts the OST and running it there.
> 
> Wasn't making a server also a client considered bad juju ?  Memory pressure things and panics and other badness.   This would be nice because the OSS's have the biggest network pipes in our setup.   BTW I am moving old files from old OST's to new OST's to balance them back out.  in usage and in age distribution. 

Yes it is, however for it's very rare for deadlock to actually happen.  I wouldn't recommend it for production but for a scheduled service interval I wouldn't expect a problem.

Ashley.


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