<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'DejaVu Sans'; font-size:10pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">On Freitag 25 September 2009 12:31:58 you wrote:<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>> Just attaching the patch on the bug is sufficient, and marking<br>
> "inspection ? adilger@sun.com". It is fine even if you don't think<br>
> this is a proper fix (though please add some words to that effect),<br>
> because it will at least provide a starting point for a better fix<br>
> if one is needed.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>Done.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>Just to get back to the subject, what _is_ the proper sequence to deactivate an OST ?<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>We have used our scenario (lctl set_param resp. conf_param) for deactivating/copying up to now 3 x 6,5TB lustre Partitions (OSTs) and it worked ok.<br>
Are we just hard hearted enough to ignore the underlying lustre mechanisms ?<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>Thanks and Regards<br>
Heiko</p></body></html>