Re: Open/iSCSI + Logout Response Timeout + replacement_timeout firing

2008-07-01 Thread Nicholas A. Bellinger
Hi Mike, On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 11:27 -0500, Mike Christie wrote: > Konrad Rzeszutek wrote: > >> Ah if your disk are using write back cache then you are going to hit > >> some problems. So if you see this in /var/log/messages when you loging: > >> > >> kernel: sd 9:0:0:1: [sdb] Write cache: enabl

Re: troubleshooting connections to wasabi target

2008-07-01 Thread Dominik L. Borkowski
On Monday 30 June 2008 17:18:25 Ken A wrote: > The problem went away when I turned off nops, reduced queue depth and > cmds max and used the open-iscsi-2.0-869.2.tar.gz source. Would you be willing to share your initiator's final working configuration? thanks, dom --~--~-~--~~-

How can I synchronize among different computers?

2008-07-01 Thread kun niu
Dear all, I've got a Dell md3000i storage server. And I've got two ubuntu 8.04 servers. Each mounts disk of the storage server successfully. But each I make a directory on one machine. It fails to appear on the other one. If I umount the disk and mount it again, the directory will appear. So here

Fedora iscsi

2008-07-01 Thread Marcos Gileno
Hi there people... As I´m an inexperient about iscsi, I would like to ask some few questions: Does iscsi target and iniciator work well in the linux fedora platform ? Which of the HBA (Qlogic´s for an example) works fine with fedora and iscsi stuff ? All of this because I working on a storage

Re: troubleshooting connections to wasabi target

2008-07-01 Thread Ken A
Dominik L. Borkowski wrote: > On Monday 30 June 2008 17:18:25 Ken A wrote: >> The problem went away when I turned off nops, reduced queue depth and >> cmds max and used the open-iscsi-2.0-869.2.tar.gz source. > > Would you be willing to share your initiator's final working configuration? > > th

Re: How can I synchronize among different computers?

2008-07-01 Thread Konrad Rzeszutek
On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 05:27:21AM -0700, kun niu wrote: > > Dear all, > > I've got a Dell md3000i storage server. > And I've got two ubuntu 8.04 servers. > Each mounts disk of the storage server successfully. > But each I make a directory on one machine. > It fails to appear on the other one. >

Re: Fedora iscsi

2008-07-01 Thread Konrad Rzeszutek
On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 10:02:07AM -0300, Marcos Gileno wrote: > > Hi there people... > > As I´m an inexperient about iscsi, I would like to ask some few questions: > > Does iscsi target and iniciator work well in the linux fedora platform ? Yes. > Which of the HBA (Qlogic´s for an example) w

Re: Fedora iscsi

2008-07-01 Thread Marcos Gileno
Konrad Rzeszutek escreveu: > On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 10:02:07AM -0300, Marcos Gileno wrote: > >> Hi there people... >> >> As I´m an inexperient about iscsi, I would like to ask some few questions: >> >> Does iscsi target and iniciator work well in the linux fedora platform ? >> > > Yes. >

Re: Fedora iscsi

2008-07-01 Thread Konrad Rzeszutek
> > Well, the QLA4xxx works OK, but you need to use the QLogic tools which are > > woefully out of date. Once you have it setup it works nicely. > > > > > > > > Thank´s Konrad... > > I have been studing the PCI Express for higher volume information > throughput. And the iscsi Qlogic´s HBA mod

Re: How can I synchronize among different computers?

2008-07-01 Thread Kun Niu
Thank you for your fast reply. Then will nfs will be a good choice? Any other cluster filesystem suggestion? Thanks again for your reply. 2008/7/1 Konrad Rzeszutek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 05:27:21AM -0700, kun niu wrote: >> >> Dear all, >> >> I've got a Dell md3000i storag

Re: open-iscsi configuration for wasabi storage builder

2008-07-01 Thread Mike Christie
Dominik L. Borkowski wrote: > On Friday 27 June 2008 15:48:13 Mike Christie wrote: >>> Would it be worth getting sniffer dump from the existing 2.0-866 >>> initiator? > > > I placed the dump at: > http://staff.vbi.vt.edu/dom/debug/debug.tar.bz2 > > In that archive I included tcpdump, sample scr

Re: Fedora iscsi

2008-07-01 Thread Marcos Gileno
Konrad Rzeszutek escreveu: >>> Well, the QLA4xxx works OK, but you need to use the QLogic tools which are >>> woefully out of date. Once you have it setup it works nicely. >>> >>> >>> >>> >> Thank´s Konrad... >> >> I have been studing the PCI Express for higher volume information

Re: open-iscsi configuration for wasabi storage builder

2008-07-01 Thread Dominik L. Borkowski
On Tuesday 01 July 2008 12:20:32 Mike Christie wrote: > Jon France at Wasabi looked into the issue, and he thinks this is fixed > in newer firmware. He asked you guys to contact Wasabi to get a firmware > update. Yep, we've been in touch, just waiting to work out some basic details. We'll see ho

Re: Fedora iscsi

2008-07-01 Thread Konrad Rzeszutek
> OK! > > So, do you think that I´m in the right direction, when I say that I´m > going to create my own > repository with some proprietary hardware and free software? Or it could > be a bad trip... What is it that you are intending to do? If you are just looking to use iSCSI I would recommend

Re: How can I synchronize among different computers?

2008-07-01 Thread Konrad Rzeszutek
On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 12:13:16AM +0800, Kun Niu wrote: > Thank you for your fast reply. > Then will nfs will be a good choice? Well, your Linux server would export the NFS directory - which would be based on a filesystem. So you would be back to the same problem (still mounting ext3 from two ma

Re: How can I synchronize among different computers?

2008-07-01 Thread Konrad Rzeszutek
On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 12:41:13PM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek wrote: > On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 12:13:16AM +0800, Kun Niu wrote: > > Thank you for your fast reply. > > Then will nfs will be a good choice? > > Well, your Linux server would export the NFS directory - which would > be based on a filesys

Re: How can I synchronize among different computers?

2008-07-01 Thread Kun Niu
I think gfs2 hits the point for me. I've found the package on my ubuntu. I'll dig into it. Really appreciate all your detailed help. 2008/7/2 Konrad Rzeszutek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 12:41:13PM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 12:13:16AM +0800, Kun

Re: Fedora iscsi

2008-07-01 Thread Marcos Gileno
Konrad Rzeszutek escreveu: >> OK! >> >> So, do you think that I´m in the right direction, when I say that I´m >> going to create my own >> repository with some proprietary hardware and free software? Or it could >> be a bad trip... >> > > What is it that you are intending to do? If you are

Re: Fedora iscsi

2008-07-01 Thread Konrad Rzeszutek
> What I intend is to have the best performance and reliability storage as > cheaper as possible... > So, I already tested the open-iscsi target and iniciator on a fedora > box. The results were not > so good, the best result were with a fedora target and windows XP > iniciator. Are your test

Re: Fedora iscsi

2008-07-01 Thread Mike Christie
Marcos Gileno wrote: > Konrad Rzeszutek escreveu: >>> OK! >>> >>> So, do you think that I´m in the right direction, when I say that I´m >>> going to create my own >>> repository with some proprietary hardware and free software? Or it could >>> be a bad trip... >>> >> What is it that you are

Re: Fedora iscsi

2008-07-01 Thread Marcos Gileno
Mike Christie escreveu: > Marcos Gileno wrote: > >> Konrad Rzeszutek escreveu: >> OK! So, do you think that I´m in the right direction, when I say that I´m going to create my own repository with some proprietary hardware and free software? Or it could be a b

Re: Fedora iscsi

2008-07-01 Thread Mike Christie
Marcos Gileno wrote: > Mike Christie escreveu: >> Marcos Gileno wrote: >> >>> Konrad Rzeszutek escreveu: >>> > OK! > > So, do you think that I´m in the right direction, when I say that I´m > going to create my own > repository with some proprietary hardware and free so

Re: Connection Errors

2008-07-01 Thread swejis
I increased the I/O on the initiator yesterday by placing the LUN holding our mySQL database on this server. Everything looks 'quite' well part from the error I got this morning. All nop time out set to zero. Jul 1 07:15:23 manjula syslog-ng[17906]: STATS: dropped 0 Jul 1 07:20:38 manjula kerne