Re: [Lustre-discuss] LNET over multiple NICs

2012-12-20 Thread White, Cliff
On 12/19/12 2:03 PM, Alexander Oltu alexander.o...@uni.no wrote: I have no experience in doing multirail on ethernet, sorry. The principle is exactly the same as for Infiniband, but as Infiniband interfaces cannot be bonded (except for IPoIB which is not of interest when considering

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Restoration of mds is of a different size!

2012-12-20 Thread Dilger, Andreas
On 2012-12-18, at 16:39, Jason Brooks brook...@ohsu.edu wrote: I am currently using lustre 1.8. I am relatively new with lustre. At the moment, I am trying to move an mds/mgs system from one disk to another. I used the version of tar modified by whamcloud in order to dump and restore

[Lustre-discuss] Errors after restarting: start index not found?

2012-12-20 Thread Jon Yeargers
Working with a set of test systems. 4 OST machines / 1 MDT MGT all running 2.6.32-279.2.1.el6_lustre.gc46c389.x86_64 kernel on CentOS 6.3 The systems lost power due to a UFU. When they were brought back up the IP for the MDT changed. In order to get them working I did the steps listed on:

Re: [Lustre-discuss] How smart is Lustre?

2012-12-20 Thread David Noriega
In my experience, if there is a particular driver for multipathing from the vendor, go for that. In our setup, we have Oracle/Sun disk arrays and with the standard linux multipathing daemon, I would get lots of weird I/O errors. Turns out the disk arrays had picked their preferred path, but Linux