High Availability
Lustre file system high availability features include a robust failover and recovery mechanism, making server failures and reboots transparent. Version interoperability between successive minor versions of the Lustre software enables a server to be upgraded by taking it offline (or failing it over to a standby server), performing the upgrade, and restarting it, while all active jobs continue to run, merely experiencing a delay while the backup server takes over the storage.
Lustre MDSes are configured as an active/passive pair, while OSSes are typically deployed in an active/active configuration that provides redundancy without extra overhead. Often the standby MDS is the active MDS for another Lustre file system, so no nodes are idle in the cluster.
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