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After you install PVFS2 on your frontend, you need to specify a PVFS2 Metadata Server. A PVFS2 Metadata Server holds all the information about the files stored in a PVFS2 file system (for example, creation time, owner, group, size, etc.).
 | By default, the frontend is configured to be the PVFS2 Metadata Server. Therefore, if you don't want to specify a different node in your cluster to be the PVFS2 Metadata Server, then you can skip this step. |
If you wish to make one of the nodes in your cluster the PVFS2 Metadata Server, then you'll need to run insert-ethers and select PVFS2 Metadata Node.
Then PXE boot the node you wish to be the PVFS2 Metadata Server (you can also boot the node with the Rocks Boot CD).