[lustre-discuss] Question about lctl changelog_deregister

2018-01-26 Thread Mohr Jr, Richard Frank (Rick Mohr)
I have started playing around with Lustre changelogs, and I have noticed a behavior with the “lctl changelog_deregister” command that I don’t understand. I tried running a little test by enabling changelogs on my MDS server: [root@server ~]# lctl --device orhydra-MDT changelog_register orhy

Re: [lustre-discuss] LNET routes

2018-01-26 Thread Chris Horn
The route selection algorithm looks at: 1. Priority 2. Hop count 3. Number of bytes in transit (or queued) 4. Number of credits available 5. Which was used last So, everything else being equal, step 5 will ensure round-robin. But there are several other factors that are considered first. At lea

[lustre-discuss] LNET routes

2018-01-26 Thread Preeti Malakar
Hi, I was wondering if someone can help me with the following question about LNETs: When three writes are issued from a compute node to an OST, is it right that the order in which the LNETs (corresponding to that OST) are used to route the data from the compute node to the OST is the sequence in

Re: [lustre-discuss] size of MDT, inode count, inode size

2018-01-26 Thread Thomas Roth
Hmm, option-testing leads to more confusion: With this 922GB-sdb1 I do mkfs.lustre --reformat --mgs --mdt ... /dev/sdb1 The output of the command says Permanent disk data: Target: test0:MDT ... device size = 944137MB formatting backing filesystem ldiskfs on /dev/sdb1 target

[lustre-discuss] size of MDT, inode count, inode size

2018-01-26 Thread Thomas Roth
Hi all, what is the relation between raw device size and size of a formatted MDT? Size of inodes + free space = raw size? The example: MDT device has 922 GB in /proc/partions. Formatted under Lustre 2.5.3 with default values for mkfs.lustre resulted in a 'df -h' MDT of 692G and more importan