Re: [Lustre-discuss] Rule of thumb for setting up lustre resources...

2008-06-17 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 09:40 -0400, Mark True wrote: Thanks so much for the prompt response, I do have a couple of questions for clarification: Does the hardware makeup of the OSS affect the speed of the OSTs? Of course. An OST is only going to go as fast as the hardware that it's made up

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Gluster then DRBD now Lustre?

2008-06-17 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 08:51 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So any node does you lose the data? I will parse that as so if you lose any node, you lose data? and the answer to that is yes. If you lose an OST, you lose data. If you lose the MDT you lose the entire filesystem. Lustre assumes

Re: [Lustre-discuss] 2.6.22

2008-06-17 Thread Bernd Schubert
Hello Tamás, On Tuesday 17 June 2008 16:41:55 Papp Tamás wrote: Dear All, Is there any reason to not user kernels with version 2.6.22.x above 2.6.22.14 or should it work? I've just compiled it with 2.6.22.19 and I can mount the cluster, but after the first ls command it gives me an oops,

Re: [Lustre-discuss] MGS disk size and activity

2008-06-17 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 11:09 -0400, Brock Palen wrote: A post a few days back recommended that the MGS be placed on its own disk for all but toy setups I think was the comment. Yeah. How much space does the MGS require? Very little. I think we have discussed here that 100MB should be lots

Re: [Lustre-discuss] 2.6.22

2008-06-17 Thread Papp Tamás
Papp Tamás wrote: Bernd Schubert wrote: Hello Tamás, On Tuesday 17 June 2008 16:41:55 Papp Tamás wrote: Dear All, Is there any reason to not user kernels with version 2.6.22.x above 2.6.22.14 or should it work? I've just compiled it with 2.6.22.19 and I can mount the

Re: [Lustre-discuss] 2.6.22

2008-06-17 Thread Bernd Schubert
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 05:50:54PM +0200, Papp Tamás wrote: Papp Tamás wrote: Bernd Schubert wrote: Hello Tamás, On Tuesday 17 June 2008 16:41:55 Papp Tamás wrote: Dear All, Is there any reason to not user kernels with version 2.6.22.x above 2.6.22.14 or should it

Re: [Lustre-discuss] MGS disk size and activity

2008-06-17 Thread Klaus Steden
I don't think it would be much, such that could it share spindles with the journal for the MDS file system? Hrm. Given it's relatively low use, I'd think that would be fine. I have a question ... if the MGS is used so infrequently relative to the use of the MDS, why is it (is it?)

Re: [Lustre-discuss] MGS disk size and activity

2008-06-17 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 12:40 -0700, Klaus Steden wrote: I have a question ... if the MGS is used so infrequently relative to the use of the MDS, why is it (is it?) problematic to locate it on the same volume as the MDT? Our mountconf expert engineers probably know all of the reasons but one

Re: [Lustre-discuss] 1.6.5 and OFED?

2008-06-17 Thread Kilian CAVALOTTI
On Monday 16 June 2008 04:35:41 am Greenseid, Joseph M. wrote: Is there any word on when the IB packages might be making it up to the download site for 1.6.5? As had been previously noted, they were missing when the rest of 1.6.5 was pushed. I'd like to support this request, since this is

Re: [Lustre-discuss] add space of MDS problem?

2008-06-17 Thread Johnlya
On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 21:38, Brian J. Murrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 04:35 -0700, Johnlya wrote: I tested it and it can work. But I don't do it by its method. I want to add space like adding OST. That is currently not possible.  The only method we support for MDT

Re: [Lustre-discuss] maximum MDT inode count

2008-06-17 Thread Daniel Leaberry
We have ~1.4 billion inodes and we're using about 50 million. We use lots of small files so I took our highest utilization ever and doubled it. Better safe than sorry. We did format with an inode every 1024 bytes because we use no striping. -- Daniel Leaberry Senior Systems Administrator