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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>All,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We have a system that was grown from 3 separate lustre filesystems and I would like to set it up so they share mgs/mdt services from a single node (so the mount points on clients all use the same ‘server’.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I have tried doing a writeconf and changing the mgs nid on the osts and mdts, but when I try mounting the mdt on the new system (which already has one mgs/mdt mounted) I get:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>mount.lustre: mount /dev/VG_hamming/work_mdt at /mnt/lustre/work/mdt failed: Operation already in progress<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The target service is already running. (/dev/VG_hamming/work_mdt)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>But if I immediately try again, it works.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Anyone know why this is?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Running lustre_1.8.5 using ext4 rpms<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Brian Andrus<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>ITACS/Research Computing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Naval Postgraduate School<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Monterey, California<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>voice: 831-656-6238<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>