[Lustre-discuss] [EXTERNAL] Re: Newbie - Unable to mount the OST on the Client

[Mohr Jr, Richard Frank (Rick Mohr)]

On Jan 8, 2015, at 12:06 PM, "Gupta, Amit" <amit.gupta at optum.com>
 wrote:

> That is starting to make sense.. Let me summarize so I have got it right
>  
> Current
> mkfs.lustre --fsname=temp --mgs --mdt --index=0 /dev/mapper/mpathcp1 - On MDS/MGS
> mkfs.lustre --ost --fsname=client1 --reformat --index=0  --mgsnode=10.177.33.10 at tcp0 /dev/zvol/LSD1Pool/LusterVola0 - ON OST
>  
> New
> mkfs.lustre --fsname=client1 --mgs --mdt --index=0 /dev/mapper/mpathcp1 - On MDS/MGS
> mkfs.lustre --ost --fsname=client1 --reformat --index=0  --mgsnode=10.177.33.10 at tcp0 /dev/zvol/LSD1Pool/LusterVola0 - ON OST
>  
> So the only change is the fsname that I had used while creating the MDT should be same as the fsname when creating OST .. In this case it is "client1"
>  
> Does that sound correct Rick and Joe ?

Yes, that seems to be correct.  

The lustre manual has a pretty decent example of a basic config in Chapter 10 (I think).  That might be useful as a reference.  

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Rick Mohr
Senior HPC System Administrator
National Institute for Computational Sciences
http://www.nics.tennessee.edu