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On 7/29/08 6:44 AM, "Aaron Knister" <aaron.knister@gmail.com>did etch on stone tablets:<BR>
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Oh and to answer your question- an OST cannot be mounted twice simoltaneously. <BR>
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... well, you –can- mount it from two locations, you’re just inevitably going to corrupt the heck out of the volume in question ... so don’t do that. ;-)<BR>
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I would also echo Aaron’s remarks about running Lustre servers on VMs ... big waste of compute power, and you will run into significant latency/contention issues.<BR>
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cheers,<BR>
Klaus</SPAN></FONT>
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