Re: [Lustre-discuss] Bad distribution of files among OSTs

2009-10-31 Thread Thomas Roth
Thanks, Andreas. Indeed we are running Lustre 1.6.7.2, on kernel 2.6.22, Debian Etch. But there was no upgrade involved, we moved from 1.6.7.1 to .2 in July. The procedure you described has the slight disadvantage of having to take the OSTs in question offline. It would be nice if Robinhood did

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Support for vanilla kernels in lustre servers

2009-10-31 Thread Mag Gam
if I were to deploy a system now and I want to do the kernel compile way, what kernel do you recommend? I prefer using 1.6.7.2 because of its stability... On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Andreas Dilger wrote: > On 2009-10-29, at 06:49, Ramiro Alba Queipo wrote: >> I am using (now testing) lust

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Support for vanilla kernels in lustre servers

2009-10-31 Thread Bernd Schubert
On Saturday 31 October 2009, Mag Gam wrote: > if I were to deploy a system now and I want to do the kernel compile > way, what kernel do you recommend? I prefer using 1.6.7.2 because of > its stability... Sun is very helpful and provide distribution kernels as tar.bz2 on their download page: htt

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Support for vanilla kernels in lustre servers

2009-10-31 Thread Andreas Dilger
On 2009-10-31, at 11:37, Bernd Schubert wrote: > Sun is very helpful and provide distribution kernels as tar.bz2 on > their download page: > > http://downloads.lustre.org/public/kernels/ > > So instead of going through the pain to get that yourself from the > vendors src.rpm Sun already greatly hel