-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 We are using a home-grown set of init scripts. There is an "lnet" init script to bring up the lnet networking, and a "lustre" init script to start lustre services.
We tend to be paranoid about the possibility of double mounting a multi-homed LUNs, so failover for us requires a sysadmin to manually issue the command to move a LUN to the failover node. We have a custom udev script to detect any available LUNs on a node, identify them as normal or backup lustre devices, and name them accordingly under /dev/lustre. The lustre init script runs an optional journal-replay-only fsck on each device before issuing a mount command to start the lustre service. Chris Brian J. Murrell wrote: > As any of you using version 1.6 of Lustre knows, Lustre servers can now > be started simply my mounting the devices it is using. Even > an /etc/fstab entry can be used if you can have the mount delayed until > the network is started. > > Given this change, you have also notices that we have eliminated the > initscript for Lustre that used to exist for releases prior to 1.6. > > I'd like to take a small survey on how those of you using mountconf > (1.6) are managing the mounting of your Lustre devices on the servers. > The obvious choices are: > > * /etc/fstab > * home-grown initscript > * heartbeat managed > * other > > If you are using /etc/fstab I'd be interested in seeing your /etc/fstab > entries (you can omit obvious near-duplication in the case of many OSTs > though) and knowing what distribution (make, version) you are using. > > /etc/fstab entries provides an interesting wrinkle in that you cannot > mount the devices until the network is up and yet most distributions > do /etc/fstab (i.e. "local") mounting before the network unless some > mechanism is used to filter out entries that need network connectivity > first. The traditional way of doing this has been to add _netdev to > those entries and they are then delayed until the network is up. > > Cheers, > b. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Lustre-discuss mailing list > Lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org > http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHvjcyg40IeHfy1xIRCjSaAKCOVBqNlxhpdYghV30aTIUqUoITFQCggCcr VRoSFlEIhSDTqwMsCML0dKs= =GJRV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list Lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss