Re: [lustre-discuss] Using lustre as a filesystem to boot from

2016-10-06 Thread Dilger, Andreas
There was a presentation at LUG from ANU about using Lustre as a root filesystem: http://opensfs.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/830-900_Robin_Humble_rjh.lug2011.pdf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpnYkx69QSc Based on a presentation given earlier this year I believe that they are still using

[lustre-discuss] Using lustre as a filesystem to boot from

2016-10-06 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Hi all, Is anyone using lustre for network boot? (For the filesystems that are loaded after the kernel is brought in by DHCP/tftp) We are currently using NFS for this but I am wondering if lustre would allow us some more robust features (like programs not crashing on clients when they are

[lustre-discuss] Quick ZFS pool question?

2016-10-06 Thread Phill Harvey-Smith
Hi all, Having tested a simple setup for lustre / zfs, I'd like to trey and replicate on the test system what we currently have on the production system, which uses a much older version of lustre (2.0 IIRC). Currently we have a combined mgs / mds node and a single oss node. we have 3