Re: [lustre-discuss] Upgrade guide 2.4.2.7

2019-04-02 Thread Nathaniel Clark
That upgrade guide, published here: https://whamcloud.github.io/Online-Help/docs/Upgrade_Guide/Upgrade_EE-2.4-el6_to_LU-LTS-el7.html Is currently the definitive guide for EE 2.4 to IML 4 upgrades. -- Nathaniel Clark Senior Software Engineer Whamcloud / DDN On 3/14/19 11:20 AM, John McCulloch

Re: [lustre-discuss] ZFS tuning for MDT/MGS

2019-04-02 Thread Hans Henrik Happe
AFAIK, that is what sync=disabled does. It pretends syncs are commited. It will flush after 5 seconds but there might be other output that will stall it longer. On 02/04/2019 14.28, Degremont, Aurelien wrote: > This is very unlikely. > The only reason that could happened is this hardware is

Re: [lustre-discuss] ZFS tuning for MDT/MGS

2019-04-02 Thread Degremont, Aurelien
This is very unlikely. The only reason that could happened is this hardware is acknowledging I/O to Lustre that it did not really commit to disk like writeback cache, or a Lustre bug. Le 02/04/2019 14:11, « lustre-discuss au nom de Hans Henrik Happe » a écrit : Isn't there a

Re: [lustre-discuss] ZFS tuning for MDT/MGS

2019-04-02 Thread Hans Henrik Happe
Isn't there a possibility that the MDS falsely tells the client that a transaction has been committed to disk. After that the client might not be able to replay, if the MDS dies. Cheers, Hans Henrik On 19/03/2019 21.32, Andreas Dilger wrote: > You would need to lose the MDS within a few seconds