Brock Palen wrote: > On Nov 7, 2007, at 4:34 PM, Oleg Drokin wrote: > >> Hello! >> >> On Nov 7, 2007, at 3:52 PM, Brock Palen wrote: >> >>> We would like to run a mdt and mgs on a node that will also have >>> devices providing some ost's is this a problem? Does it run into >>> the same problems as a client thats also a server has leaving us in >>> unrecoverable state? >> Yes, this has similar recovery implications at the moment - this >> configuration will not have recovery working, because mds that is a >> client of ost is not available for replay. But we plan to fix this >> eventually. > > Whoops I guess I confused some people (or im confused now) the > server would not be a clinet of the file system, but would be a mds > and oss at teh same time. Is this a problem? No repeat No OSS MDS > or MGS will mount the final filesystem.
No confusion. The MDS is actually a 'client' of the OSS, so you have the same deadlock/recovery issue that exists with the filesystem mount client. cliffw > >> Bye, >> Oleg >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Lustre-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.clusterfs.com/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.clusterfs.com/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
