[lustre-discuss] replacing empty OST
Marion Hakanson
hakansom at ohsu.edu
Wed Jan 18 17:58:30 PST 2017
Patrick,
I'm no guru, but there's a "--reformat" option to the mkfs.lustre command
which you can use when re-creating a lost/destroyed OSS. That should
tell the MGS that you intend to re-use the index.
Regards,
Marion
> To: <lustre-discuss at lists.lustre.org>
> From: Patrick Shopbell <pls at astro.caltech.edu>
> Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 17:18:05 -0800
> Subject: [lustre-discuss] replacing empty OST
>
> Hi Lustre gurus -
> Quick question about replacing a new, empty OST: I installed an
> OST (#9) briefly from a specific machine, and then ended up
> aborting that install. (It didn't work due to some version mismatch
> errors.) I've since solved all those problems, reinstalled the OSS,
> and reformatted the OST. (Maybe I should not have done that...)
>
> Anyway, now I can add the OST, and it sort of works, except it
> notes that OST #9 is already assigned. So I get an error like this:
>
> [date] astrolmgs kernel: LustreErrorL 140-S: Server lustre-OST0009
> requested index 9, but that index is already in use. Use --writeconf to
> force.
>
> Since I don't care about the data on there (because there isn't
> any), is there any shortcut to getting this to work? Or do I just
> need to shut everything down, run writeconf on the MGS and
> OSS units, then start everything back up? Is there any way to
> make the system think that this OST #9 volume is the same as
> the earlier failed volume - since it really is the same thing,
> meaning a new empy OST.
>
> I know I could just disable OST 9 everywhere and call this one
> OST 10, but I'd rather not...
>
> I am running the old Lustre 2.5.2.
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Patrick
>
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