On 27 Feb 2012, at 19:52, Brock Palen wrote:
>> I'd also consider mounting the FS as a client on the server which hosts the 
>> OST and running it there.
> 
> Wasn't making a server also a client considered bad juju ?  Memory pressure 
> things and panics and other badness.   This would be nice because the OSS's 
> have the biggest network pipes in our setup.   BTW I am moving old files from 
> old OST's to new OST's to balance them back out.  in usage and in age 
> distribution. 

Yes it is, however for it's very rare for deadlock to actually happen.  I 
wouldn't recommend it for production but for a scheduled service interval I 
wouldn't expect a problem.

Ashley.
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