I will add emphasis here. Backup the MDT before doing anything at all. The MDT backup procedure is short and documented in the Lustre Manual.
Megan (MDT back-up saved my bacon) Larko --------------------------------------------------------- Kevin said: Message: 3 Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 10:58:36 -0600 From: Kevin Van Maren <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Lustre-discuss] More detail regarding soft lockup error To: "Brian J. Murrell" <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Andreas _always_ recommends a backup first. Kevin Brian J. Murrell wrote: > On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 10:09 -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: > >> If you increase the size of the MDT (via resize2fs) it will increase the >> number of inodes as well. >> > > Andreas: what is [y]our confidence level with resize2fs and our MDT? > Given that I don't think we regularly (if at all) test this in our QA > cycles (although I wish we would) I personally would be a lot more > comfortable with a backup first. What are your thoughts? Unnecessary? > > b. _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
