Re: [Lustre-discuss] Patchless server

2008-10-10 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Sat, 2008-10-11 at 01:01 -0400, Mag Gam wrote: > so, when is this available? When is *what* available? b. ___ Lustre-discuss mailing list Lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Patchless server

2008-10-10 Thread Mag Gam
so, when is this available? On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:28 PM, Brian J. Murrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 22:06 -0500, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: >> >> I appreciate the effort ;) > > :-) > >> I went through the process of installing on Debian a month or two ago. >> It seems t

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Patchless server

2008-10-10 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 22:06 -0500, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: > > I appreciate the effort ;) :-) > I went through the process of installing on Debian a month or two ago. > It seems to work relatively well. Good to hear. > All this effort in packaging and QA problems I wondering what QA problems

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Patchless server

2008-10-10 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 02:23:27PM -0400, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 12:51 -0500, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: > > > > While I think I understand why you say this, it very easily can sound > > like a monopolistic tactic to sell more Sun hardware. > > Heh. I'm not sure I'm going

Re: [Lustre-discuss] 1.6.5.1 patches

2008-10-10 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Sat, 2008-10-11 at 07:41 +0700, sd a wrote: > Hi, > > When is release date for 1.6.6? I think I already answered today that I don't know when 1.6.6 will be released because for the most part, nobody does. We don't make release date promises or predictions because we don't even know the date u

Re: [Lustre-discuss] 1.6.5.1 patches

2008-10-10 Thread sd a
Hi, When is release date for 1.6.6? Thanks On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 4:02 AM, Papp Tamas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brian J. Murrell wrote: > > Hopefully this tells you all you need to know (and more) about our > > release process. > > > > Thanks, I hope too:) > > tamas > __

Re: [Lustre-discuss] 1.6.5.1 patches

2008-10-10 Thread Papp Tamas
Brian J. Murrell wrote: > Hopefully this tells you all you need to know (and more) about our > release process. > Thanks, I hope too:) tamas ___ Lustre-discuss mailing list Lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lust

Re: [Lustre-discuss] 1.6.5.1 patches

2008-10-10 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 22:12 +0200, Papp Tamás wrote: > hi All, Hi, > What patches should be applied for 1.6.5.1 to get it more stable (also > the same question for patchless clients)? Well, by definition, all of the patches that will be applied to release n are needed by release n-1. For 1.6.5

[Lustre-discuss] 1.6.5.1 patches

2008-10-10 Thread Papp Tamás
hi All, What patches should be applied for 1.6.5.1 to get it more stable (also the same question for patchless clients)? I've found this in a bugzilla comment for clients: https://bugzilla.lustre.org/attachment.cgi?id=18103&action=edit And this at the list: https://bugzilla.lustre.org/show_b

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Adding IB to tcp only cluster

2008-10-10 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 14:56 -0400, Brock Palen wrote: > > Not right now, the question was because we were thinking abou tit OK. In any case, I guess the point I was making is that some servers would need IB as well as the clients, or it would be pointless. Just to be absolutely clear. > Really

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Kernel Oops on the stock RHEL 4 kernel?

2008-10-10 Thread Jason Williams
Brian J. Murrell wrote: > On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 08:32 -0400, Jason Williams wrote: > >> Hi >> > > Hi. > > >> --- [cut here ] - [please bite here ] - >> Kernel BUG at mballoc:1334 >> > > This looks like bug 16101 fixed in 1.6.6. There is a patch in that bug >

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Adding IB to tcp only cluster

2008-10-10 Thread Brock Palen
On Oct 10, 2008, at 2:45 PM, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 11:08 -0400, Brock Palen wrote: >> We have added a few IB nodes to our cluster (about 70 our of 600 >> nodes). >> What would it take to have lustre go over IB as well as tcp for the >> rest of the hosts? > > So I'm assu

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Adding IB to tcp only cluster

2008-10-10 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 11:08 -0400, Brock Palen wrote: > We have added a few IB nodes to our cluster (about 70 our of 600 nodes). > What would it take to have lustre go over IB as well as tcp for the > rest of the hosts? So I'm assuming that at least some of these IB nodes are servers (i.e. OSS)

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Kernel Oops on the stock RHEL 4 kernel?

2008-10-10 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 08:32 -0400, Jason Williams wrote: > Hi Hi. > --- [cut here ] - [please bite here ] - > Kernel BUG at mballoc:1334 This looks like bug 16101 fixed in 1.6.6. There is a patch in that bug you can apply if you wish or you can wait for 1.6.6. Before yo

Re: [Lustre-discuss] patchless client question

2008-10-10 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 13:04 -0500, Edgar Gabriel wrote: > Hi, Hi, > My question is now, has anybody tried to compile a patchless client for > 2.6.25? See bug 14250. > And, more specifically, the lustre-wiki page states that > "...the majority of the ext3 changes have been incorporated into

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Patchless server

2008-10-10 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 12:51 -0500, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: > > While I think I understand why you say this, it very easily can sound > like a monopolistic tactic to sell more Sun hardware. Heh. I'm not sure I'm going to be able to say anything that will convince you otherwise. But to your poi

[Lustre-discuss] patchless client question

2008-10-10 Thread Edgar Gabriel
Hi, I am currently working on setting up a lustre repository for my cluster. While it is not an issue to configure the OSSes to use one of the supported lustre kernels, I am a little reluctant ( for technical reasons) to go back for the cluster nodes to linux-2.6.22. They are currently running

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Patchless server

2008-10-10 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 08:40:07AM -0400, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 14:03 +0200, Lukas Hejtmanek wrote: > > Hello, > > Hi, > > > is there any chance to see patchless server similarly to the client? > > Maybe some day. We seem to be eliminating patches from the kernel > lit

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Patchless server

2008-10-10 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 21:05 -0400, Mag Gam wrote: > How do you get involved in the QA process. You get a job at Sun in the Lustre Group's QA department. :-) > I would like to get involved to speed up the efforts if possible. It's not really something that can be sped up by external efforts. Of

Re: [Lustre-discuss] lustre as a shared filesystem for vmware?

2008-10-10 Thread Jay Christopherson
Nope, it does not *have* to be ESX and I was starting to think about using VMware Server last night for the reasons you stated. I would prefer ESX, but I am not sure its going to be possible. On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 4:48 AM, Kevin Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jay – > > > > Do you need to

[Lustre-discuss] Adding IB to tcp only cluster

2008-10-10 Thread Brock Palen
We have added a few IB nodes to our cluster (about 70 our of 600 nodes). What would it take to have lustre go over IB as well as tcp for the rest of the hosts? I know we could use a router machine, but we could only provide maybe 2 gige ports which would be poor. So my questions: would only t

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Kernel Oops on the stock RHEL 4 kernel?

2008-10-10 Thread Jason Williams
Guy Coates wrote: > Jason Williams wrote: > >> Hi >> I have been playing around with lustre 1.6.5.1 as part of some testing >> that we are doing for an up and coming cluster. I installed it on 2 >> test machines, Dell 2950's with 8 GB of ram to be exact, and fired up a >> test file system. >> T

[Lustre-discuss] Kernel Oops on the stock RHEL 4 kernel?

2008-10-10 Thread Jason Williams
Hi I have been playing around with lustre 1.6.5.1 as part of some testing that we are doing for an up and coming cluster. I installed it on 2 test machines, Dell 2950's with 8 GB of ram to be exact, and fired up a test file system. The test file system was very simple: /dev/sdb - ~400GB f

[Lustre-discuss] lustre as a shared filesystem for vmware?

2008-10-10 Thread Kevin Kelly
Jay - Do you need to use ESX? ESX can use images (instead of block devices) but the client is still an issue. We have used Lustre as a shared file system for VMware Server (GSX). Since that product relies on a host, you can set up the Lustre client and get it working. Also - the distro