Re: [Lustre-discuss] Getting around a Catch-22

2010-12-08 Thread Bob Ball
Thanks for the pointer to this. After thinking on this a bit, I believe I can see my way clear to using it. Testing time bob On 12/7/2010 5:45 PM, Cliff White wrote: > On 12/07/2010 06:51 AM, Bob Ball wrote: >> We have 6 OSS, each with at least 8 OST. It sometimes happens that I >> need t

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Getting around a Catch-22

2010-12-07 Thread Cliff White
On 12/07/2010 06:51 AM, Bob Ball wrote: > We have 6 OSS, each with at least 8 OST. It sometimes happens that I > need to do maintenance on an OST, so to avoid hanging processes on the > client machines, I use lctl to disable access to that OST on active > client machines. > > So, now, it may happe

[Lustre-discuss] Getting around a Catch-22

2010-12-07 Thread Bob Ball
We have 6 OSS, each with at least 8 OST. It sometimes happens that I need to do maintenance on an OST, so to avoid hanging processes on the client machines, I use lctl to disable access to that OST on active client machines. So, now, it may happen during this maintenance that a client machine