Re: [Lustre-discuss] lustre and software RAID

2011-01-21 Thread Samuel Aparicio
ok thanks, I will look into this. Professor Samuel Aparicio BM BCh PhD FRCPath Nan and Lorraine Robertson Chair UBC/BC Cancer Agency 675 West 10th, Vancouver V5Z 1L3, Canada. office: +1 604 675 8200 cellphone: +1 604 762 5178: lab website http://molonc.bccrc.ca On Jan 21, 2011, at 2:00 PM, A

Re: [Lustre-discuss] lustre and software RAID

2011-01-21 Thread Andreas Dilger
On 2011-01-21, at 14:50, Samuel Aparicio wrote: > modinfo reports as follows. seems like the ext4 modules. > the odd thing is that the format works when the disk array is already > presented as a raid set, rather than making the raidset with mdadm on the OSS > > > filename: > /lib

Re: [Lustre-discuss] lustre and software RAID

2011-01-21 Thread Samuel Aparicio
e2fsprogs-1.41.10.sun2-0redhat.rhel5.x86_64 mkfs.lustre --ost --fsname=lustre --reformat --mgsnode=11.1.254.3@tcp0 /dev/md2 mdadm -v --create /dev/md2 --chunk=256 --level=raid10 --raid-devices=16 --spare-devices=1 --assume-clean --layout=n2 /dev/etherd/e5.9 /dev/etherd/e5.10 /dev/etherd/e5.11

Re: [Lustre-discuss] lustre and software RAID

2011-01-21 Thread Samuel Aparicio
modinfo reports as follows. seems like the ext4 modules. the odd thing is that the format works when the disk array is already presented as a raid set, rather than making the raidset with mdadm on the OSS filename: /lib/modules/2.6.18-194.3.1.el5_lustre.1.8.4/updates/kernel/fs/lus

Re: [Lustre-discuss] lustre and software RAID

2011-01-21 Thread Eudes PHILIPPE
I’m not an expert on lustre, just begin with it J but… What is your version of e2fsprogs? What is your command line to format your raid? Regards. De : lustre-discuss-boun...@lists.lustre.org [mailto:lustre-discuss-boun...@lists.lustre.org] De la part de Samuel Aparicio Envoyé : vend

Re: [Lustre-discuss] lustre and software RAID

2011-01-21 Thread Andreas Dilger
On 2011-01-21, at 13:36, Samuel Aparicio wrote: > trying to create an ext4 lustre filesystem attached to an OSS. > the disks being used are exported from an external disk enclosure. > i create a raid10 set with mdadm from 16 2Tb disks, this part seems fine. > I am able to format such an array with

[Lustre-discuss] question about routing between subnets

2011-01-21 Thread Bob Ball
Our lustre 1.8.4 system sits primarily on subnet A. However, we also have a small number of clients that sit on subnet B. In setting up the subnet B clients, we provided lnet router machines that have addresses on both subnet A and on subnet B, the MGS machine has addresses on both subnet A a

[Lustre-discuss] lustre and software RAID

2011-01-21 Thread Samuel Aparicio
I am having the following issue: trying to create an ext4 lustre filesystem attached to an OSS. the disks being used are exported from an external disk enclosure. i create a raid10 set with mdadm from 16 2Tb disks, this part seems fine. I am able to format such an array with normal ext4, mount a f

Re: [Lustre-discuss] MDT raid parameters, multiple MGSes

2011-01-21 Thread Cliff White
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 3:43 AM, Thomas Roth wrote: > Hi all, > > we have gotten new MDS hardware, and I've got two questions: > > What are the recommendations for the RAID configuration and formatting > options? > I was following the recent discussion about these aspects on an OST: > chunk size,

Re: [Lustre-discuss] split OSTs from single OSS in 2 networks

2011-01-21 Thread Haisong Cai
It does look exactly what I need. Thanks Aurllien. From bugzilla, the patch has been checked in to 1.8. Could someone please point me to the source location? Is it in 1.8.5 - don't believe so, but I thought I would check. If not, would it be in later release of 1.8? thanks all, Haisong On Thu,

Re: [Lustre-discuss] MDT raid parameters, multiple MGSes

2011-01-21 Thread Andreas Dilger
On 2011-01-21, at 06:55, Ben Evans wrote: > In our lab, we've never had a problem with simply having 1 MGS per > filesystem. Mountpoints will be unique for all of them, but functionally it > works just fine. While this "runs", it is definitely not correct. The problem is that the client will

Re: [Lustre-discuss] MDT raid parameters, multiple MGSes

2011-01-21 Thread Ben Evans
In our lab, we've never had a problem with simply having 1 MGS per filesystem. Mountpoints will be unique for all of them, but functionally it works just fine. -Ben Evans -Original Message- From: lustre-discuss-boun...@lists.lustre.org on behalf of Thomas Roth Sent: Fri 1/21/2011 6:43

[Lustre-discuss] MDT raid parameters, multiple MGSes

2011-01-21 Thread Thomas Roth
Hi all, we have gotten new MDS hardware, and I've got two questions: What are the recommendations for the RAID configuration and formatting options? I was following the recent discussion about these aspects on an OST: chunk size, strip size, stride-size, stripe-width etc. in the light of the 1