Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Adding a quorum node

2021-12-09 Thread Wahl, Edward
I frequently change quorum on the fly on both our 4.x and 5.0 clusters during upgrades/maintenance. You have sanity in the CCR to start with? (mmccr query, lsnodes, etc,etc) Anything useful in the logs or if you drop debug on it? ('export DEBUG=1'and then re-run command) Ed Wahl OSC -O

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Handling bad file names in policies?

2021-10-08 Thread Wahl, Edward
e: [gpfsug-discuss] Handling bad file names in policies? Why not just configure a file placement policy using a non existent pool or a bad encryption key to prevent files with non-printables characters from even being created in the first place. Alec On Fri, Oct 8, 2021, 11:49 AM Wahl, Edward

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Handling bad file names in policies?

2021-10-08 Thread Wahl, Edward
lt;mailto:gpfsug-discuss-boun...@spectrumscale.org> An: gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org<mailto:gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org> CC: Betreff: [EXTERNAL] Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Handling bad file names in policies? Datum: Di, 5. Okt 2021 01:29 On 04/10/2021 23:23, Wahl, Edward wrote: > I

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Handling bad file names in policies?

2021-10-08 Thread Wahl, Edward
nday, October 4, 2021 7:29 PM To: gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Handling bad file names in policies? On 04/10/2021 23:23, Wahl, Edward wrote: > I know I've run into this before way back, but my notes on how I > solved this aren't getting the job done in

[gpfsug-discuss] Handling bad file names in policies?

2021-10-04 Thread Wahl, Edward
I know I've run into this before way back, but my notes on how I solved this aren't getting the job done in Scale 5.0.5.8 and my notes are from 3.5. 😉 Anyone know a way to get a LIST policy to properly feed bad filenames into the output or an external script? When I say bad I mean things like c

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Serial number of [EG]SS nodes

2021-09-02 Thread Wahl, Edward
Does 'rinv |grep -i serial ' work on the x86? Ed Wahl OSC From: gpfsug-discuss-boun...@spectrumscale.org on behalf of Hannappel, Juergen Sent: Thursday, September 2, 2021 11:31 AM To: gpfsug main discussion list Subject: [gpfsug-discuss] Serial number of

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] RDMA write error IBV_WC_RETRY_EXC_ERR

2021-07-09 Thread Wahl, Edward
>-E- Link: ib2s5/U1/P6<-->node152/U1/P1 - Unexpected actual link speed 10 This looks like a bad cable (or port). Trying re-seating the cable on both ends, or replacing it to get to full Link Speed. Re-run ibdiagnet to confirm or use something like 'ibportstate' to check it. Ed Wahl OSC -

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] GUI refresh task error

2021-06-28 Thread Wahl, Edward
Curious if this was ever fixed or someone has an APAR # ? I'm still running into it on 5.0.5.6 Ed Wahl OSC -Original Message- From: gpfsug-discuss-boun...@spectrumscale.org On Behalf Of Stef Coene Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2020 9:47 AM To: gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org Subject:

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] policy ilm features?

2021-02-02 Thread Wahl, Edward
restripefs/mmrestripefile commands. Fred __ Fred Stock | IBM Pittsburgh Lab | 720-430-8821 sto...@us.ibm.com - Original message ----- From: "Wahl, Edward" Sent by: gpfsug-discuss-boun...@spectrumscale.org To: gpfsug main discussion list Cc

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] policy ilm features?

2021-02-02 Thread Wahl, Edward
Replying to a 3 year old message I sent, hoping that in the last couple of years that Scale has added some ILM extensions into the policy engine that I have missed, or somehow didn't notice? Just ran into a file with an 'unbalanced' flag and I REALLY don't want to have to mmlsattr everything. AG

[gpfsug-discuss] Request for folks using encryption on SKLM, run a word count

2020-09-08 Thread Wahl, Edward
Ran into something a good while back and I'm curious how many others this affects. If folks with encryption enabled could run a quick word count on their SKLM server and reply with a rough count I'd appreciate it. I've gone round and round with IBM SKLM support over the last year on this and

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] dependent versus independent filesets

2020-07-07 Thread Wahl, Edward
We also went with independent filesets for both backup (and quota) reasons for several years now, and have stuck with this across to 5.x. However we still maintain a minor number of dependent filesets for administrative use. Being able to mmbackup on many filesets at once can increase your

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Client Latency and High NSD Server Load Average

2020-06-03 Thread Wahl, Edward
I saw something EXACTLY like this way back in the 3.x days when I had a backend storage unit that had a flaky main memory issue and some enclosures were constantly flapping between controllers for ownership. Some NSDs were affected, some were not. I can imagine this could still happen in 4.x a

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] naive question about rsync: run it on a client or on NSD server?

2020-02-14 Thread Wahl, Edward
Disregarding all the other reasons not to run it on the NSDs, many years of rsync on GPFS has shown us it is ALWAYS faster from clients with reasonable networks and no other overhead. Ed -Original Message- From: gpfsug-discuss-boun...@spectrumscale.org On Behalf Of Giovanni Bracco Se

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] gui_refresh_task_failed for HW_INVENTORY with two active GUI nodes

2020-01-30 Thread Wahl, Edward
Interesting. We just deployed an ESS here and are running into a very similar problem with the gui refresh it appears. Takes my ppc64le's about 45 seconds to run rinv when they are idle. I had just opened a support case on this last evening. We're on ESS 5.3.4 as well. I will wait to see w

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Ganesha all IPv6 sockets - ist this to be expected?

2019-09-16 Thread Wahl, Edward
What package provides this /usr/lib/tuned/ file? Ed From: gpfsug-discuss-boun...@spectrumscale.org on behalf of Olaf Weiser Sent: Monday, September 16, 2019 3:12 AM To: gpfsug main discussion list Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Ganesha all IPv6 sockets - ist

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Ganesha all IPv6 sockets - ist this to be expected?

2019-09-13 Thread Wahl, Edward
I recall looking at this a year or two back. Ganesha is either v4 and v6 both (ie: the encapsulation you see), OR ipv4 ONLY. (ie: /etc/modprobe.d/ipv6.conf disable=1) Ed From: gpfsug-discuss-boun...@spectrumscale.org on behalf of Billich Heinrich Rainer

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Running mmcheckquota on a file system with 1.3B files

2019-08-19 Thread Wahl, Edward
I'm assuming that was a run in the foreground and not using QoS? Our timings sound roughly similar for a Foreground run under 4.2.3.x. 1 hour and ~2 hours for 100million and 300 million each. Also I'm assuming actual file counts, not inode counts! Background is, of course, all over the place

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Checking for Stale File Handles

2019-08-09 Thread Wahl, Edward
We use NHC here (Node Health Check) from LBNL and our SS clients are almost all using NFS root. We have a check where we look for access to a couple of dotfiles (we have multiple SS file systems) and will mark a node offline if the checks fail. Many things can contribute to the failure of a si

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Spectrum Scale Encryption

2017-04-06 Thread Wahl, Edward
This is rather dependant on SS version. So what used to happen before 4.2.2.* is that a client would be unable to mount the filesystem in question and would give an error in the mmfs.log.latest for an SGPanic, In 4.2.2.* It appears it will now mount the file system and then give errors on fi

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] multipath.conf for EMC V-max

2016-11-15 Thread Wahl, Edward
Hey Jason if you want to get me an lsscsi output I can probably whip up a multi-path.conf block for your customer or talk to them on the phone if you like. Ed - Reply message - From: "Jason Bennett" To: "gpfsug main discussion list" Subject: [gpfsug-discuss] multipath.conf for EMC V-

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Blocksize

2016-09-22 Thread Wahl, Edward
This is a great idea. However there are quite a few other things to consider: -max file count? If you need say a couple of billion files, this will affect things. -wish to store small files in the system pool in late model SS/GPFS? -encryption? No data will be stored in the system pool so la

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] migrating data from GPFS3.5 to ESS appliance (GPFS4.1)

2016-02-01 Thread Wahl, Edward
Along the same vein I've patched rsync to maintain source atimes in Linux for large transitions such as this. Along with the stadnard "patches" mod for destination atimes it is quite useful. Works in 3.0.8 and 3.0.9. I've not yet ported it to 3.1.x https://www.osc.edu/sites/osc.edu/files/sta

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] GPFS (partly) inside dmz

2015-11-02 Thread Wahl, Edward
First off let me recommend vsftpd. We've used that in a few single point to point cases to excellent results. Next, I'm going to agree with Johnathan here, any hacker that someone gains advantage on an FTP server will probably not have the knowledge to take advantage of the IB, however there