Re: [lustre-discuss] Synchronous writes on a loaded ZFS OST

2018-05-15 Thread Steve Thompson
On Tue, 15 May 2018, Dilger, Andreas wrote: On May 15, 2018, at 10:05, Steve Thompson wrote: On Tue, 8 May 2018, Vicker, Darby (JSC-EG311) wrote: The fix suggested by Andreas in that thread worked fairly well and we continue to use it. I'd like to inquire whether the fixes of LU-4009 will

Re: [lustre-discuss] Synchronous writes on a loaded ZFS OST

2018-05-15 Thread Dilger, Andreas
> On May 15, 2018, at 10:05, Steve Thompson wrote: > > On Tue, 8 May 2018, Vicker, Darby (JSC-EG311) wrote: > >> The fix suggested by Andreas in that thread worked fairly well and we >> continue to use it. > > I'd like to inquire whether the fixes of LU-4009 will be available in a > future L

Re: [lustre-discuss] Synchronous writes on a loaded ZFS OST

2018-05-15 Thread Hans Henrik Happe
On 15-05-2018 18:05, Steve Thompson wrote: > On Tue, 8 May 2018, Vicker, Darby (JSC-EG311) wrote: > >> The fix suggested by Andreas in that thread worked fairly well and we >> continue to use it. > > I'd like to inquire whether the fixes of LU-4009 will be available in a > future Lustre version

Re: [lustre-discuss] Synchronous writes on a loaded ZFS OST

2018-05-15 Thread Steve Thompson
On Tue, 8 May 2018, Vicker, Darby (JSC-EG311) wrote: The fix suggested by Andreas in that thread worked fairly well and we continue to use it. I'd like to inquire whether the fixes of LU-4009 will be available in a future Lustre version, and if so, when it is the likely release date. My ins

Re: [lustre-discuss] Synchronous writes on a loaded ZFS OST

2018-05-08 Thread Hans Henrik Happe
In general Lustre is very stable. Metadata performance feels okay and we only have one mdt on 6 SSDs (3-way mirror). We had another issue that also are ZIL related: http://lists.lustre.org/pipermail/lustre-discuss-lustre.org/2016-May/013500.html Cheers, Hans Henrik On 08-05-2018 21:21, Riccar

Re: [lustre-discuss] Synchronous writes on a loaded ZFS OST

2018-05-08 Thread Vicker, Darby (JSC-EG311)
ns Henrik Happe Date: Tuesday, May 8, 2018 at 7:57 AM To: "lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org" Subject: [lustre-discuss] Synchronous writes on a loaded ZFS OST Hi, We had some users experiencing slow vim (the editor) updates on our Lustre homedirs. Turns out vim is doing some fsyncs that

[lustre-discuss] Synchronous writes on a loaded ZFS OST

2018-05-08 Thread Hans Henrik Happe
Hi, We had some users experiencing slow vim (the editor) updates on our Lustre homedirs. Turns out vim is doing some fsyncs that does not play well with a loaded ZFS OST. We tried testing with ioping, which does synced writes (like dd with conv=fdatasync). When an OST is loaded (i.e. scrubbing) t