[Pvfs2-users] I/O Server failures.

[Rob Ross]

Hi Nikhil,

If you are running PVFS and a server goes down, you lose *access* to  
the metadata and data on that file server. Sometimes there are pieces  
of the file system that are still available, depending on what server  
died and what metadata it controlled.

Assuming the disks are ok, restarting the server will return  
availability.

The cluster as a whole should not be otherwise impacted by a server  
failure.

Rob

On Jun 27, 2008, at 2:50 PM, Nikhil Kulkarni wrote:

> Hi,
>
> If I have configured 4 I/O servers and if 1 of them goes down, then
> will I lose all my data?
> will the cluster fail?
>
> Thanks,
> Nikhil
>
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