[PVFS2-users] client configuration with a cluster of servers

[Weikuan Yu]

>

Dear Neil,

>
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 01:54:24PM -0400, Weikuan Yu wrote:
>> mount -t pvfs2 pvfs2 /mnt/pvfs2 tcp://node2:3334/pvfs2-fs #or
>> mount -t pvfs2 pvfs2 /mnt/pvfs2 tcp://node3:3334/pvfs2-fs
>>
>> What are the difference between them as node1, node2 or node are all 
>> in
>> the cluster-based servers.
>
> There is no difference.  All servers are able to feed the
> configuration information back to the client.  You just need to
> specify one.
>

Thanks for the clarification.

>> BTW, it seems tricky to tear down the client-side configuration. Could
>> somebody inform me what is
>> the correct order of stopping the client side configuration? I have
>> done them in this order:
>>
>> umount /mnt/pvfs2
>> rmmod pvfs2
>> kill pvfs2-client.
>
> Hmm, you shouldn't be able to rmmod the module while the pvfs2-client
> is running.  The proper shutdown is as follows:
>
> umount /mnt/pvfs2
> killall pvfs2-client
> (wait 2 seconds for the client to terminate properly)
> rmmod pvfs2
>
>> The client node often crushes. Am I missing something or I should do 
>> in
>> a different way or order?
>
> Crushes?  Crashes?  Can you provide some more information?  How does
> it crash and what was happening at the time?
>

Crashes. Typo...

I only noticed that the node is no longer accessible from remote and my 
terminals got frozen.
I will get more info and let you know later.

Thanks a lot for your help.

Weikuan