On Fri, 2010-09-17 at 11:10 -0800, Jonathan B. Horen wrote: > Thanks very much!
NP. > Yes, but... how, then, am I to view SAN storage devices? I'm not sure. Whatever you can do to present the devices to Linux as block devices. Lustre OSTs and MDTs are Linux block devices. > they're already in RAID-6 arrays, with PVs, VGs, and LVs, An (LVM if that's what you are referring to) is a block device and can be used as an OST or MDT. > Am I correct in thinking that these SAN storage devices would be networked > to one-or-more OSSes? They need to make themselves available as block device(s). > Did I misunderstand that RHEL5 sports Lustre-support already in the kernel? Yes, I'm afraid you did. You will need either one of our pre-built (we currently build for RHEL5, OEL5, SLES10 and SLES11) kernels or patch your own kernel with the patches. b.
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