.. warning::
Developing balancers with vstart is difficult because running all daemons
- and clients on one node can overload the system. Let it run for a while, even
- though you will likely see a bunch of lost heartbeat and laggy MDS warnings.
- Most of the time this guide will work but sometimes all MDSs lock up and you
- cannot actually see them spill. It is much better to run this on a cluster.
+ and clients on one node can overload the system. Let the system run for a
+ while, even though there will likely be many lost heartbeat warnings and
+ many laggy MDS warnings. In most cases this guide will work, but sometimes
+ when developing with vstart all MDSs will lock up and you cannot actually
+ see them spill. It is better to run this on a multi-node cluster.
As a prerequisite, we assume you have installed `mdtest
<https://sourceforge.net/projects/mdtest/>`_ or pulled the `Docker image