[lustre-discuss] OST not connecting to secondary mgs on initial startup

[Oliver Mangold]

On 03.03.2016 15:06, Kurt Strosahl wrote:
> Good Morning,
>
>     I'm trying to add a new ost to a lustre file system, one in which the mgs is presently on its failover node.  It looks like the ost does not failover and connect to the mgs.
I encountered a similar problem recently with 2.7.x. It refused to mount 
the OSTs for the first time, when the MGS was on the secondary node. It 
looks to me the MGS has to be on the primary node the first time an OST 
is mounted. I cannot tell you, though, if that is the expected behavior.