[Lustre-discuss] Lustre SLES 11 Clients - How to deal with updates

2010-01-30 Thread Jagga Soorma
Hi Guys, I am building our sles 11 lustre clients and was wondering how people deal with updates. Here are some options I was thinking about: 1) Build the systems and patch everything except the kernel. Then install the lustre client and kernel-ib rpm's. In the future we would upgrade everythi

[Lustre-discuss] building example taken from manual page, api, 1.8.1.1

2010-01-30 Thread DT Piotr Wadas
Hello, I'm trying to build test program found in manual page llapi_file_create(3). Lustre suite, including server, client, utils and liblustre was configured, source-build and installed by me, machine is booted with lustre-enabled kernel, and lustre filesystem is mounted from remote server. I

Re: [Lustre-discuss] 8T Limit

2010-01-30 Thread Peter Grandi
> I recall that there is an 8T limit on the size of an OST. Is > that just for Lustre 1.6? Or also 1.8 and 2.0? Now that we > are starting to get 2T drives, is there any way to exceed 8T? > Thanks. [ ... ] While I have seen Lustre developers recommend having few large OSTs, queries like this see

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Preferred network for OST data transfer

2010-01-30 Thread Peter Grandi
> I've just been tuning a small Lustre installation, with two > Ethernet physical networks and have noticed that the bulk of > the network traffic is not going through the intended network. > The two networks are labelled tcp0 and tcp1, and tcp1 is in > principle the best network for OST traffic,