Re: [Lustre-discuss] Announce: Lustre 1.6.5 is available!

2008-06-28 Thread Andreas Dilger
On Jun 26, 2008 08:44 -0700, Michael Will wrote: when you want to use infiniband, then you are missing the essential bits, and have to either build it yourself or pay SUN or your favorite system integrator to build the kernel-ib rpm for you. That isn't quite true - the omission of the IB

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre delete efficency

2008-06-28 Thread Andreas Dilger
On Jun 26, 2008 10:57 -0700, Stew Paddaso wrote: We are considering using Lustre as our backend file platform. The specific application involves storing a high-volume of sequential data writes, with a moderate amount of reads (mostly sequencial, with some random seeks). Our concern is with

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre delete efficency

2008-06-28 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 12:19 -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: A single client can have up to 8 (by default) destroy RPCs in flight per OST, which we throttle to avoid overloading the server if this is happening on many clients at the same time. It is worth noting that there was a bug open during