Re: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre 1.6.4.3 install/upgrade problem

2008-09-24 Thread Andreas Dilger
On Sep 23, 2008 17:55 -0400, Heald, Nathan T. wrote: > When I try to start it I get an error (Same error for an upgrade or fresh > install): > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] lustre]# mount -t lustre /dev/mpath/mpath2 /mnt/test/mdt > mount.lustre: mount /dev/mpath/mpath2 at /mnt/test/mdt failed: No such dev

[Lustre-discuss] Quota performance

2008-09-24 Thread Mag Gam
I was wondering if we should implement quotas for our students but is there a downside such as performance? Previously, we implemented quotes using vxfs and we noticed a significant performance hit and the users were not happy. So, are there any downsides such as performance loss when using quotas?

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre 1.6.4.3 install/upgrade problem

2008-09-24 Thread Heald, Nathan T.
Yes it is a symlink. I just now tried mounting the actual block device and am getting the same error unfortunately. Thanks for the suggestion though. -Nathan On 9/24/08 2:59 AM, "Andreas Dilger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sep 23, 2008 17:55 -0400, Heald, Nathan T. wrote: > When I try to st

[Lustre-discuss] Lustre 1.6.5.1 on the box with 2 interfaces

2008-09-24 Thread Lukas Hejtmanek
Hello, I have some difficulties to setup a server acting as metadata server and OST server. The box has two interfaces, eth0 and eth2. eth0 is the primary interface and has the ip which is associated with the hostname. However, I would like to use the eth2 interface for Lustre. In an ideal case,

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre 1.6.5.1 on the box with 2 interfaces

2008-09-24 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 21:41 +0200, Lukas Hejtmanek wrote: > Hello, Hi, > I have some difficulties to setup a server acting as metadata server and OST > server. Let's start by saying putting an MDS and OSS on the same box is not good from both a performance and recovery point of view. If that bo

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Quota performance

2008-09-24 Thread Andreas Dilger
On Sep 24, 2008 06:11 -0400, Mag Gam wrote: > I was wondering if we should implement quotas for our students but is > there a downside such as performance? Previously, we implemented > quotes using vxfs and we noticed a significant performance hit and the > users were not happy. So, are there any

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre 1.6.5.1 on the box with 2 interfaces

2008-09-24 Thread Klaus Steden
Hi Lukas, Do you want to use these interfaces together as a logical unit? The syntax below would construct two separate LNET networks. Additionally, you would need to qualify the mount path on the client side to bind Lustre to a specific LNET instance, i.e. 'mount /mnt/lustre [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre 1.6.5.1 on the box with 2 interfaces

2008-09-24 Thread Lukas Hejtmanek
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 03:58:36PM -0400, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > Let's start by saying putting an MDS and OSS on the same box is not good > from both a performance and recovery point of view. If that box fails, > recovery can fail. Well, I guess that for the first tests it could be ok :) > >

[Lustre-discuss] LustreError: server_bulk_callback

2008-09-24 Thread Nathan Dauchy
Greetings, We have 4 OSS nodes and 2 MDS nodes configured in HA pairs, running 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5_lustre.1.6.5smp, and using the o2ib network transport. We had multiple failovers recently (possibly due to hardware problems, but no root cause yet) and managed to get things back again to what I _th

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre 1.6.4.3 install/upgrade problem

2008-09-24 Thread Heald, Nathan T.
Found my initial problem, my network interface that was being used for lustre communication (myrinet) didn't come up after the kernel upgrade this time. I resolved that, rebuilt everything from scratch, and have have an upgraded lustre 1.6.4.3 running on my MGS and OSS nodes. However, I'm gettin