[Lustre-discuss] Lustre Client Access SAN

2009-07-27 Thread Tharindu Rukshan Bamunuarachchi
this may be an stupid question. but . 1. does Lustre client directly access SAN/storage (like GFS, OCFS or Sun Cluster SVM) 2. if client connects over network, a. will TCP/IP performance directly hit on CFS b. cannot I keep client on same machine as OSS/MDS etc.

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Kernel BUG at OSS server

2009-07-27 Thread Patricia Santos Marco
2009/7/24 Walter Poxon > > On Jul 24, 2009, at 3:35 AM, Patricia Santos Marco wrote: > > >> >> Hello!! We have a lustre cluster with two OSS servers with >> "2.6.16.60-0.31_lustre.1.6.7-smp" kernel. The system is installed since a >> mouth. The servers have 200 clients and all works well, but the

[Lustre-discuss] Block clients from mounting a Lustre filesystem

2009-07-27 Thread Arne Wiebalck
Dear list, with versions <= 1.8.0.1 is there a more elegant way of blocking clients from mounting a Lustre fs than configuring IP tables accordingly? Is it correct that with versions >= 2.0 Kerberos will deliver this 'functionality' as I can enforce the client to authenticate (which it can't if

[Lustre-discuss] File sizes on MDT

2009-07-27 Thread Thomas Roth
Hi all, I'm copying around data between 2 MDTs in a test system. Having mounted the partitione as 'ldiskfs', I had a look in MDT/ROOT. I found all my test data there, but I'm puzzled by the indicated file sizes. For example I had put one of my holiday's movies, it's 40MB. On the ldiskfs-mounted MD

[Lustre-discuss] 1.8 download link outdated

2009-07-27 Thread Bernd Schubert
Hello this link still points to the alpha version, I guess it better should be redirected as v1.6: http://downloads.lustre.org/public/lustre/v1.8/ Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd Schubert DataDirect Networks ___ Lustre-discuss mailing list Lustre-discuss@l

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre Client Access SAN

2009-07-27 Thread Andreas Dilger
On Jul 27, 2009 13:19 +0600, Tharindu Rukshan Bamunuarachchi wrote: > 1. does Lustre client directly access SAN/storage (like GFS, OCFS or > Sun Cluster SVM) No, client only communicates with the server, and only a single server will access storage at any one time. > 2. if client con

[Lustre-discuss] erasing file system

2009-07-27 Thread Shantanu S Pavgi
Hi, The manual has following instruction for erasing a file system. If you have a separate MGS (that you do not want to reformat), then add the "writeconf" flag to mkfs.lustre on the MDT, run: $ mkfs.lustre --reformat --writeconf –fsname spfs --mdt --mgs /dev/sda I am not sure, but wouldn't this

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Block clients from mounting a Lustre filesystem

2009-07-27 Thread Andreas Dilger
On Jul 27, 2009 12:01 +0200, Arne Wiebalck wrote: > with versions <= 1.8.0.1 is there a more elegant way of blocking > clients from mounting a Lustre fs than configuring IP tables accordingly? I don't think there is any other easy way to do this. I believe LLNL had a patch to essentially impleme

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Block clients from mounting a Lustre filesystem

2009-07-27 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 01:53:02PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: > On Jul 27, 2009 12:01 +0200, Arne Wiebalck wrote: > > with versions <= 1.8.0.1 is there a more elegant way of blocking > > clients from mounting a Lustre fs than configuring IP tables accordingly? > > I don't think there is any oth

Re: [Lustre-discuss] erasing file system

2009-07-27 Thread Shantanu S Pavgi
I meant '--mgsnode' and not '-mgs' in my command. $ mkfs.lustre --reformat --writeconf –fsname spfs --mdt --mgsnode= /dev/sda -- Shantanu Pavgi. Shantanu S Pavgi wrote: > Hi, > > The manual has following instruction for erasing a file system. > If you have a separate MGS (that you do not want to

Re: [Lustre-discuss] File sizes on MDT

2009-07-27 Thread Andreas Dilger
On Jul 27, 2009 14:24 +0200, Thomas Roth wrote: > I'm copying around data between 2 MDTs in a test system. Having mounted > the partitione as 'ldiskfs', I had a look in MDT/ROOT. I found all my > test data there, but I'm puzzled by the indicated file sizes. For > example I had put one of my holida

Re: [Lustre-discuss] 1.8 download link outdated

2009-07-27 Thread Andreas Dilger
On Jul 27, 2009 14:50 +0200, Bernd Schubert wrote: > this link still points to the alpha version, I guess it better should be > redirected as v1.6: > > http://downloads.lustre.org/public/lustre/v1.8/ As with all other official releases, you need to download them from the Sun Download Center, wh