Re: [Lustre-discuss] Unable to write to the Lustre File System as any user except root

[Kilian CAVALOTTI]

Hi Carl,

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 9:07 PM, Barberi, Carl E
 wrote:
> “ LustreError: 11-0: an error occurred while communicating with
> 192.168.10.2@o2ib.  The mds_getxattr operation failed with -13.”

You likely miss authentication information on your MDS about the user
you're trying to write as.
Just configure NIS, LDAP or whatever you're using on your MDS, and you
should be good to go.

Cheers,
-- 
Kilian
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[Lustre-discuss] MDS network traffic question

[James Robnett]

   We have a small lustre install consisting of an MDS and 5 OSS servers.
Historically the MDS and OSS servers had both a 1Gbit ethernet interface
(tcp0) to workstations and a QDR IB interface (ib0) to our cluster.

   We're planning on adding a MTU 9000 10Gbit ethernet (tcp1) interface
to the MDS and OSS nodes and workstations for faster access.  Our
software has a pretty high IO to CPU component.

   I just discovered that our MDS can't in fact take another PCIe 8x
card but it does have a spare GigE port.  The 10gbit Ethernet switch
can support 1gbit and 10gbit interfaces.

   We'd then have 3 networks
tcp0 at 1gbit to slow clients
tcp1 at 10gbit to faster clients
ib0 to cluster

   My question is:

   Is there a risk of congestion or overrunning that 2nd GigE MDS 
interface if our workstations and OSS servers communicate over tcp1 at
10gbit but the MDS tcp1 is connected at 1Gbit.  The bulk of our traffic
will continue to be between the cluster and lustre over IB but the
workstations can trivially over run ethernet hence the desire for
10gbit between them and the OSSes.

   My gut feeling is it should be fine, particularly with the larger MTU,
there's not that much traffic to the MDS but I'd easily believe it if
somebody said it's risky thing to do.

   The alternative is to buy a new MDS and swap disks into it.

James Robnett
National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Array Operations Center





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[Lustre-discuss] Unable to write to the Lustre File System as any user except root

[Barberi, Carl E]

I have a File Server set up running Lustre 2.1.  I have one MDS and 3 OSS with 
Infiniband interconnect.  The MDS and 3 OSS mount fine and I am able to mount a 
client.  If I perform any basic operation (such as "ll", "cp", "mv", etc.) as 
root, it appears to work.  However, when I run as any other user, I get the 
following error in my syslog:

" LustreError: 11-0: an error occurred while communicating with 
192.168.10.2@o2ib.  The mds_getxattr operation failed 
with -13."

It tells me that I don't have permission to read from or write to the file 
system.  Why am I seeing this?

Thank you,
Carl
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