Re: [lustre-discuss] lustre 2.10.5 or 2.11.0

2018-10-30 Thread Riccardo Veraldi
Sorry for replaying late, I answered in-line On 10/21/18 6:00 AM, Andreas Dilger wrote: It would be useful to post information like this on wiki.lustre.org so they can be found more easily by others. There are already some ZFS tunings there (I don't have the URL handy, just on a plane), so

Re: [lustre-discuss] dd oflag=direct error (512 byte Direct I/O)

2018-10-30 Thread Andreas Dilger
I would totally be fine with that, so long as it works in a reasonable manner. In theory, it would even be possible to do sub-page uncached writes from the client, and have the OSS handle the read-modify-write of a single page. That would need some help from the CLIO layer to send the small

Re: [lustre-discuss] dd oflag=direct error (512 byte Direct I/O)

2018-10-30 Thread Patrick Farrell
Andreas, An interesting thought on this, as the same limitation came up recently in discussions with a Cray customer. Strictly honoring the direct I/O expectations around data copying is apparently optional. GPFS is a notable example – It allows non page-aligned/page-size direct I/O, but it

Re: [lustre-discuss] Lustre OSS kernel panic after mounting OSTs

2018-10-30 Thread Riccardo Veraldi
thank you Fernando  for the hint, I did it right  now thanks. I am running e2fsck again. Anyway my problem was this: https://jira.whamcloud.com/browse/LU-5040 thank you On 10/30/18 5:28 AM, Fernando Perez wrote: Dear Riccardo. Have you tried to upgrade e2fsprogs packages before perform the

Re: [lustre-discuss] Lustre OSS kernel panic after mounting OSTs

2018-10-30 Thread Fernando Perez
Dear Riccardo. Have you tried to upgrade e2fsprogs packages before perform the e2fsck? Regards. = Fernando Pérez Institut de Ciències del Mar (CSIC) Departament Oceanografía Física i Tecnològica Passeig Marítim de la Barceloneta,37-49 08003 Barcelona

Re: [lustre-discuss] Lustre OSS kernel panic after mounting OSTs

2018-10-30 Thread Riccardo Veraldi
I could mount the OSTs the only way though was to  mount with abort_recov thanks to this old ticket https://jira.whamcloud.com/browse/LU-5040 On 10/30/18 5:05 AM, Riccardo Veraldi wrote: Hello, I have quite a very critical problem. One of my OSSes hanfs into a kernel panic when trying to

[lustre-discuss] Lustre OSS kernel panic after mounting OSTs

2018-10-30 Thread Riccardo Veraldi
Hello, I have quite a very critical problem. One of my OSSes hanfs into a kernel panic when trying to mount the OSTs. After mounting 11 OSTs over 12 total OSTs it goes into kernel panic. Does not matter hte order in which they are mounted. Any clue on hints ? I cannot really recover it and