[Pvfs2-users] Is that need stopping the cluster at first when adding some nodes to it?

[Kyle Schochenmaier]

Correct,  PVFS cannot add new metatdata/io SERVERS to the filesystem on the fly.
In order to do this you just have to modify the config file(s),
initialize the new servers, then restart the server processes.
The clients should also be unmounted during this process, but ideally
it shouldnt take more than 10-30 seconds of downtime to do this.

~Kyle
Kyle Schochenmaier



On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Min Zhou <coderplay at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am a newbie on pvfs. I heard that pvfs has a shortage, when adding some
> nodes to a running PVFS  cluster, the cluster should stop at first, then add
> nodes to that cluster after modified some configurations. PVFS cannot add
> new nodes on-the-fly, is that true?
>
> Thanks,
> Min
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