Re: [Lustre-discuss] Samba and file locking

2010-08-30 Thread David Noriega
No, we will only have a single samba server sharing out lustre-backed files. What do you mean in a way similar to samba? What does samba do that is different? We are using lustre to replace our old nfs server for serving up home directories in our cluster and the rest of our systems. On Fri, Aug

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Samba and file locking

2010-08-30 Thread David Noriega
Well the samba server will be just for that, but we only have the single filesystem '/lustre' So because of that I'm going to have to put the flock option on all of the clients? this was my original question. On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Mark Hahn h...@mcmaster.ca wrote: No, we will only

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Samba and file locking

2010-08-30 Thread Oleg Drokin
Hello! Similar as in some app whose locking would conflict with samba locks in a way to protect updates by samba from updates from those apps at the same time should they happen in the same moment of time. Now that I think about it, I remember that samba does not really use flock, but rather

[Lustre-discuss] Is 1.6.x.x still available

2010-08-30 Thread Daneil Goodman
We have several ten servers and thousands of compute nodes which are still running lustre-1.6.7.2. on several HPC clusters. I would like to know: - When will lustre-1.6.x.x retire? Does Oracle still maintain and upgrade it to new version? - Where can I download it? Looks like the download link

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Is 1.6.x.x still available

2010-08-30 Thread Peter Jones
1.6.x went EOL on June 30th. It is no longer on the download site, though the tags should still be accessible from the Lustre group git repository. Daneil Goodman wrote: We have several ten servers and thousands of compute nodes which are still running lustre-1.6.7.2. on several HPC

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Is 1.6.x.x still available

2010-08-30 Thread Andreas Dilger
On 2010-08-30, at 14:04, Daneil Goodman wrote: We have several ten servers and thousands of compute nodes which are still running lustre-1.6.7.2. on several HPC clusters. I would like to know: - When will lustre-1.6.x.x retire? It was announced in the last LUG, etc that support for 1.6.x

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre Client - Memory Issue

2010-08-30 Thread Dmitry Zogin
Actually there was a bug fixed in 1.8.4 when obdo structures can be allocated and freed outside of OBDO_ALLOC/OBDO_FREE macros. That could lead to the slab fragmentation and pseudo-leak. The patch is in the attachment 30664 for bz 21980 Dmitry Andreas Dilger wrote: On 2010-08-26, at 18:42,