Re: [Lustre-discuss] problem with clients and multiple transports

2011-11-09 Thread Thomas Roth
Your clients have both ib and tcp nids? Because I encountered a strange behavior trying to mount an ib based FS and a tcp based FS on the same (ethernet-only) client. To connect to the ib MDS it had to go through a lnet router, of course. Experimentally, I found options lnet

[Lustre-discuss] reorder OSTs?

2011-11-09 Thread Liam Forbes
I just built a lustre filesystem, and it appears to be working fine. However, I think I'd like to reorder the OSTs in order to spread the work across the OSSes better. Is this something I can do on the fly, or do I have to rebuild the filesystem in a different order? If the latter, I need to do

Re: [Lustre-discuss] reorder OSTs?

2011-11-09 Thread DEGREMONT Aurelien
Liam Forbes a écrit : I just built a lustre filesystem, and it appears to be working fine. However, I think I'd like to reorder the OSTs in order to spread the work across the OSSes better. Is this something I can do on the fly, or do I have to rebuild the filesystem in a different order? If

[Lustre-discuss] mkfs.lustre problem

2011-11-09 Thread Bob Ball
I'm hoping someone can help me out here. We are running Lustre 1.8.4 under SL5.7 (now, it has slowly upgraded over time from SL5.3 or SL5.4 and it started out at Lustre 1.8.3). A newly installed OSS running SL5.7 does not seem to show this issue, when making new OST (not reusing the index

Re: [Lustre-discuss] reorder OSTs?

2011-11-09 Thread Liam Forbes
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 9:05 AM, DEGREMONT Aurelien aurelien.degrem...@cea.fr wrote: Liam Forbes a écrit : I just built a lustre filesystem, and it appears to be working fine. However, I think I'd like to reorder the OSTs in order to spread the work across the OSSes better.  Is this something