[gpfsug-discuss] Multi-cluster question (was Re: gpfsug-discuss Digest, Vol 100, Issue 32)

[Jonathan Buzzard]

On 31/05/2020 17:47, Jan-Frode Myklebust wrote:
> 
> No, this is a common misconception.  You don’t need any NSD servers. NSD 
> servers are only needed if you have nodes without direct block access.
> 

I see that has changed then. In the past mmcrnsd would simply fail 
without a server list passed to it.

If you have been a long term GPFS user (I started with 2.2 on a site 
that had been running since 1.x days) then we are not always aware of 
things that have changed.

JAB.

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