Re: [Lustre-discuss] quota persistence over filesystem shutdown

2008-05-23 Thread Johann Lombardi
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 12:31:42AM +0200, Bernd Schubert wrote: > Huh? See bug 13359. > The manual doesn't say anything about mkfs.lustre or tunefs.lustre, but > all is to be done using lfs > (http://manual.lustre.org/manual/LustreManual16_HTML/ConfiguringQuotas.html) It is a lack in the docum

Re: [Lustre-discuss] user space lustre

2008-05-23 Thread Andreas Dilger
On May 23, 2008 08:11 +0800, Stuart Midgley wrote: > Right. So I am still not clear whether 64GB oss's will be of any benefit. > My understanding at the moment is that oss's don't benefit from larger > memory, hence we run with 2GB. Sorry to not be clear - the DMU ARC will allow caching on th

Re: [Lustre-discuss] quota persistence over filesystem shutdown

2008-05-23 Thread Johann Lombardi
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 10:59:00AM +0100, Guy Coates wrote: > on the MDS and OSTs, but still I still have the same problem. You ran the tunefs.lustre command, stopped/started the MDT/OSTs and quotas were not automatically turned on, right? Did you run quotacheck on the filesystem at least once? Pl

Re: [Lustre-discuss] quota persistence over filesystem shutdown

2008-05-23 Thread Guy Coates
Johann Lombardi wrote: > On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 10:59:00AM +0100, Guy Coates wrote: >> on the MDS and OSTs, but still I still have the same problem. > > You ran the tunefs.lustre command, stopped/started the MDT/OSTs and quotas > were not automatically turned on, right? > Did you run quotacheck o

Re: [Lustre-discuss] quota persistence over filesystem shutdown

2008-05-23 Thread Bernd Schubert
On Friday 23 May 2008 10:09:52 Johann Lombardi wrote: > On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 12:31:42AM +0200, Bernd Schubert wrote: > > Huh? > > See bug 13359. > > > The manual doesn't say anything about mkfs.lustre or tunefs.lustre, but > > all is to be done using lfs > > (http://manual.lustre.org/manual/Lust

Re: [Lustre-discuss] quota persistence over filesystem shutdown

2008-05-23 Thread Guy Coates
Bernd Schubert wrote: > On Friday 23 May 2008 10:09:52 Johann Lombardi wrote: >> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 12:31:42AM +0200, Bernd Schubert wrote: >>> Huh? >> See bug 13359. Humm, The quotaing is still not persistent. I've created a new filesystem and ran: tunefs.lustre--param="xxt.quota_t

Re: [Lustre-discuss] quota persistence over filesystem shutdown

2008-05-23 Thread Bernd Schubert
On Friday 23 May 2008 13:00:02 Guy Coates wrote: > Bernd Schubert wrote: > > On Friday 23 May 2008 10:09:52 Johann Lombardi wrote: > >> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 12:31:42AM +0200, Bernd Schubert wrote: > >>> Huh? > >> > >> See bug 13359. > > Humm, > > The quotaing is still not persistent. > > > > I'v

Re: [Lustre-discuss] quota persistence over filesystem shutdown

2008-05-23 Thread Guy Coates
Bernd Schubert wrote: > On Friday 23 May 2008 13:00:02 Guy Coates wrote: >> Bernd Schubert wrote: >>> On Friday 23 May 2008 10:09:52 Johann Lombardi wrote: On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 12:31:42AM +0200, Bernd Schubert wrote: > Huh? See bug 13359. >> Humm, >> >> The quotaing is still not pe

Re: [Lustre-discuss] 1.6.5

2008-05-23 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 10:18 -0400, Kossey, Robert wrote: > Hello, > > Yesterday Red Hat released RHEL5U2 with OFED 1.3 support built in. Neat. > Is > there a plan to provide a Lustre patched kernel release of this, in > coordination with Lustre 1.6.5, so that there is a prebuilt version of >

Re: [Lustre-discuss] 1.6.5

2008-05-23 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 11:30 -0400, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > > We don't list the RHEL5 kernel at all. I believe that is an omission. > I will look into it. Must have been a mistake. The ChangeLog in 1.6.5rc4 is listing: * Support for kernels: 2.6.5-7.311 (SLES 9), 2.6.9-

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Planning a Lustre Quick Start Guide

2008-05-23 Thread Brock Palen
> > This is not quite a HOWTO but has some interesting suggestions > for HA and backup (even if I think that the only sensible way to > backup a large Lustre storage pool is another Lustre storage > pool): > > http://indico.cern.ch/contributionDisplay.py? > contribId=24&sessionId=12&confId=2739

Re: [Lustre-discuss] quota persistence over filesystem shutdown

2008-05-23 Thread Jim Garlick
In the fall we plan to roll out our 1.6.5 release in production and if all goes well in testing, enable quotas with no limits for block/inode usage reporting. I'm adding the tunefs commands to our rollout notes. Will we need to re-run quotacheck in our startup scripts when the MDS restarts uncle

[Lustre-discuss] problems getting o2ib device recognized

2008-05-23 Thread murray smigel
Hi, I am running Centos5 with 2.6.18-8.1.14.el5_lustre.1.6.4.1 as the OS. I built the custom kernel against the patched source and built lustre-1.6.1 (and 1.6.3) against the source tree as: ./configure --with-linux=/usr/src/linux-2.6.18-8.1.14.el5_lustre.1.6.4.1 --with-o2ib=/public/ofed/SRC_1.3/of

[Lustre-discuss] rquota release 2.0

2008-05-23 Thread Jim Garlick
Incidentally I put the latest release of the Livermore quota clients up on sourceforge here: http://rquota.sourceforge.net/ Basically it's quota and repquota for NFS and Lustre only. There is no "local" file system support. A tip of the hat to Nicholas Cardo of LBNL who described LBNL's quot

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Planning a Lustre Quick Start Guide

2008-05-23 Thread Klaus Steden
Hi Brock, I'm experimenting with a Dell iSCSI array in one of our labs here ... so far, it behaves pretty typically for a Lustre, although the performance isn't blazing -- but that's due to limitations of the network infrastructure. I didn't notice anything in the iSCSI gear that would indicate

Re: [Lustre-discuss] rquota release 2.0

2008-05-23 Thread Andreas Dilger
On May 23, 2008 12:48 -0700, Jim Garlick wrote: > Incidentally I put the latest release of the Livermore quota clients > up on sourceforge here: > > http://rquota.sourceforge.net/ > > Basically it's quota and repquota for NFS and Lustre only. There is > no "local" file system support. > > A

Re: [Lustre-discuss] rquota release 2.0

2008-05-23 Thread Jim Garlick
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 03:21:32PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: > On May 23, 2008 12:48 -0700, Jim Garlick wrote: > > Incidentally I put the latest release of the Livermore quota clients > > up on sourceforge here: > > > > http://rquota.sourceforge.net/ > > > > Basically it's quota and repquo

Re: [Lustre-discuss] rquota release 2.0

2008-05-23 Thread Andreas Dilger
On May 23, 2008 15:06 -0700, Jim Garlick wrote: > On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 03:21:32PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > On May 23, 2008 12:48 -0700, Jim Garlick wrote: > > > Incidentally I put the latest release of the Livermore quota clients > > > up on sourceforge here: > > > > > > http://rqu

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Planning a Lustre Quick Start Guide

2008-05-23 Thread Brock Palen
On May 23, 2008, at 5:08 PM, Klaus Steden wrote: > > Hi Brock, > > I'm experimenting with a Dell iSCSI array in one of our labs > here ... so > far, it behaves pretty typically for a Lustre, although the > performance > isn't blazing -- but that's due to limitations of the network > infrastruct