Thanks, I might look into it. Right now the performance of the stock driver that comes with the kernel is more than the 4 1gig connections we will be using.
I am having other issues now with the new filesystem that I did not have with our old one, that iwll be a new question though. Brock Palen www.umich.edu/~brockp Center for Advanced Computing [EMAIL PROTECTED] (734)936-1985 On Aug 7, 2008, at 2:11 PM, Mike Berg wrote: > Brock, > > It is recommended that mv_sata is used on the x4500. > > It has been a while since I have built this up myself and a few > Lustre releases back but I do understand the pain. I hope that with > Lustre 1.6.5.1 on RHEL 4.5 you can just build mv_sata against the > provided Lustre kernel and alias it accordingly in modprobe.conf > and create a new initrd, then update grub. I don't have gear handy > to give it try unfortunately. Please let me know your experiences > with this if you pursue it. > > Enclosed is a somewhat dated document on what we have found to be > the best configuration of the x4500 for use with Lustre. Ignore the > N1SM parts. We optimized for performance and RAS with some > sacrifices on capacity. Hopefully this is a useful reference. > > > Regards, > Mike Berg > Sr. Lustre Solutions Engineer > Sun Microsystems, Inc. > Office/Fax: (303) 547-3491 > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > <X4500-preparation.pdf> > > On Aug 6, 2008, at 1:48 PM, Brock Palen wrote: > >> Is it still worth the effort to try and build mv_stata? when working >> with an x4500? >> stata_mv from RHEL4 does not appear to show some of the stability >> problems discussed online before. >> >> I am curious because the build system sun provides with the driver >> does not play nicely with the lustre kernel source packaging. >> >> If it is worth all the pain, if others have already figured it out. >> Any help would be grateful. >> >> >> Brock Palen >> www.umich.edu/~brockp >> Center for Advanced Computing >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> (734)936-1985 >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Lustre-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss > _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
