[Lustre-discuss] 1.8.4 runs on 5.5 and 2.0.0 runs on 5.4?

2010-08-27 Thread Lundgren, Andrew
Are the release notes correct where they state that Lustre 1.8.4 runs on RHEL 5.5 and Lustre 2.0.0 runs on RHEL 5.4? Does that mean that there is no upgrade path from 1.8.4 to 2.0.0? -- Andrew ___ Lustre-discuss mailing list

Re: [Lustre-discuss] 1.8.4 runs on 5.5 and 2.0.0 runs on 5.4?

2010-08-27 Thread Peter Jones
Andrew The difference in the distro support (and the earlier noted discrepancy with the versions of OFED supported) is simply because Lustre 2.0.0 was frozen before Lustre 1.8.4 and so missed the opportunity to get these more current releases. However, it is true that upgrading from 1.8.4 to

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Fwd: Re: Announce: Lustre 1.8.4 is available!

2010-08-27 Thread yangsheng
Original Message Subject: Re: [Lustre-discuss] Announce: Lustre 1.8.4 is available! Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:00:46 -0700 From: Jay Lan jay.zen@gmail.com To: Terry Rutledge terry.rutle...@oracle.com CC: lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Disabling locks in Lustre

2010-08-27 Thread Oleg Drokin
Hello! On Aug 26, 2010, at 1:07 PM, Dulcardo Arteaga Clavijo wrote: I am trying to compare the performance of Lustre for parallel write to a shared file with locks and without locks. But after doing some experiments I didn't see any performance improvement when I run without locks. It all

[Lustre-discuss] Samba and file locking

2010-08-27 Thread David Noriega
Are their issues with Samba and Lustre working together? I remember something about turning oplocks off in samba, and while testing samba I noticed this [2010/08/27 17:30:59, 3] lib/util.c:fcntl_getlock(2064) fcntl_getlock: lock request failed at offset 75694080 count 65536 type 1 (Function not

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Samba and file locking

2010-08-27 Thread Oleg Drokin
Hello! On Aug 27, 2010, at 6:41 PM, David Noriega wrote: But I also found out about the flock option for lustre. Should I set flock on all clients? or can I just use localflock option on the fileserver? It depends. If you are 100% sure none of your other clients use flocks in a way similar to