RE: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre client as root filesystem

2006-12-07 Thread Sridharan Ramaswamy \(srramasw\)
if we can be of any help here. http://www.linuxclustersinstitute.org/Linux-HPC-Revolution/Arc hive/PDF06/35-Cope_J_final.pdf -Adam Sridharan Ramaswamy \(srramasw\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Has anyone used Lustre client as root filesystem for diskless nodes? I saw this old

RE: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre client as root filesystem

2006-12-07 Thread Sridharan Ramaswamy \(srramasw\)
by this you mean to include Lustre modules that typically gets loaded during lconf, right? It's been long enough since I used lconf that I can't speak to that. The short answer is any module which is needed in order to be a client should be copied into the initrd. Fair

RE: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre client as root filesystem

2006-12-11 Thread Sridharan Ramaswamy \(srramasw\)
Thanks David for the script and pointers. I'm a week or so away trying this out in my box(s). Will post my results back. It seems most of the examples use PXE, as anyone tried this using Uboot? I hope it would have similar capability to pick a custom initrd image w/ Lustre modules and

[Lustre-discuss] Logical volumes over Lustre storage

2007-01-09 Thread Sridharan Ramaswamy \(srramasw\)
Is it possible to get traditional LVM like functionality over Lustre based storage? My understanding is Lustre can aggregate storage OSTs to provide a single mount point. But the aggregate storage it provides can't be carved out into different logical volumes, is this correct? For eg, assume

RE: [Lustre-discuss] Logical volumes over Lustre storage

2007-01-09 Thread Sridharan Ramaswamy \(srramasw\)
Message- From: cliff white [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 11:21 AM To: Nathaniel Rutman Cc: Sridharan Ramaswamy (srramasw); lustre-discuss@clusterfs.com Subject: Re: [Lustre-discuss] Logical volumes over Lustre storage Nathaniel Rutman wrote: Sridharan

RE: [Lustre-discuss] Logical volumes over Lustre storage

2007-01-09 Thread Sridharan Ramaswamy \(srramasw\)
From: Peter Braam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 5:18 PM To: Sridharan Ramaswamy (srramasw) Cc: cliff white; Nathaniel Rutman; lustre-discuss@clusterfs.com Subject: Re: [Lustre-discuss] Logical

RE: [Lustre-discuss] Logical volumes over Lustre storage

2007-01-09 Thread Sridharan Ramaswamy \(srramasw\)
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[Lustre-discuss] Number of processes in Lustre tunable?

2007-01-23 Thread Sridharan Ramaswamy \(srramasw\)
I'm tring to measure the overhead of having Lustre on the system. Among other things, I noticed it starts lot of processes, root 4565 1 0 Jan03 ?00:00:00 [ll_mdt_attr_14] root 4636 1 0 Jan03 ?00:00:01 [ll_ost_13] root 4651 1 0 Jan03 ?

[Lustre-discuss] Lustre works in MIPS64 and mixed-endian platforms?

2007-01-25 Thread Sridharan Ramaswamy \(srramasw\)
Is Lustre supported on MIPS64 platform like Cavium? Also can Lustre OST and client be different endian types? I saw the following mail thread on lustre 1.6 beta 5 mixed endian, so I'm hoping it is supported. https://mail.clusterfs.com/pipermail/lustre-discuss/2006-November/002534 .html TIA,

RE: [Lustre-discuss] Number of processes in Lustre tunable?

2007-02-07 Thread Sridharan Ramaswamy \(srramasw\)
To: Sridharan Ramaswamy (srramasw) Cc: Andreas Dilger; lustre-discuss@clusterfs.com Subject: Re: [Lustre-discuss] Number of processes in Lustre tunable? There is no real reason that I see to reduce the number of Lustre processes. It won't cause any ill effects on other processes running