+ <para>The process that re-establishes the connection state when a
+ client that was previously connected to a server reconnects after the
+ server restarts.</para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+ <glossentry xml:id="remotedirectories" condition='l24'>
+ <glossterm>Remote directory</glossterm>
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>A remote directory describes a feature of
+ Lustre where metadata for files in a given directory may be
+ stored on a different MDT than the metadata for the parent
+ directory. Remote directories only became possible with the
+ advent of DNE Phase 1, which arrived in Lustre version
+ 2.4. Remote directories are available to system
+ administrators who wish to provide individual metadata
+ targets for individual workloads.</para>