Re: [lustre-discuss] Usage for lfs setstripe -o ost_indices

2018-11-09 Thread Patrick Farrell
“I am not able to specify -o to an existing file.” Yes, that’s expected - As with any other setstripe command, you cannot apply it to existing files which already have stripe information. (The exception is files created with LOV_DELAY_CREATE or mknod(), which do not have striping information

Re: [lustre-discuss] Usage for lfs setstripe -o ost_indices

2018-11-09 Thread Ms. Megan Larko
Responding to A. Dilger (orig e-mail copied below) I am not sure what the overall objective is trying to achieve in specifically identifying to which OSTs to write; it was a question from one in our user community. I am not able to specify -o to an existing file. I have not tried to use the

Re: [lustre-discuss] Usage for lfs setstripe -o ost_indices

2018-11-09 Thread Andreas Dilger
This is https://jira.whamcloud.com/browse/LU-8417 "setstripe -o does not work on directories", which has not been implemented yet. That said, setting the default striping to specific OSTs on a directory is usually not the right thing to do. That will result in OST imbalance. Equivalent

Re: [lustre-discuss] 2.10.5 support for 4.14 kernel

2018-11-09 Thread Prout, Andrew - LLSC - MITLL
It looks like LU-10560 never got re-opened, even though the target was changed to 2.10.6. I don’t see a patchset that Jenkins is happy about yet in Gerrit. Is this still on track to land for 2.10.6? Andrew Prout Lincoln Laboratory Supercomputing Center MIT Lincoln Laboratory 244 Wood

Re: [lustre-discuss] Usage for lfs setstripe -o ost_indices

2018-11-09 Thread Mohr Jr, Richard Frank (Rick Mohr)
> On Nov 9, 2018, at 11:28 AM, Mohr Jr, Richard Frank (Rick Mohr) > wrote: > > >> On Nov 8, 2018, at 11:44 AM, Ms. Megan Larko wrote: >> >> I have been attempting this command on a directory on a Lustre-2.10.4 >> storage from a Lustre 2.10.1 client and I fail with the following message:

Re: [lustre-discuss] Usage for lfs setstripe -o ost_indices

2018-11-09 Thread Mohr Jr, Richard Frank (Rick Mohr)
> On Nov 8, 2018, at 11:44 AM, Ms. Megan Larko wrote: > > I have been attempting this command on a directory on a Lustre-2.10.4 storage > from a Lustre 2.10.1 client and I fail with the following message: > > lfs setstripe -c 4 -S 1m -o 1,2-4 custTest/ > error on ioctl 0x4008669a for

[lustre-discuss] Laying the groundwork for a new lustre file system

2018-11-09 Thread Kurt Strosahl
All, I asked this question a month or so back, but thought I'd ask it again to see if anyone else had insight. I'm in the process of designing a new lustre file system to replace an existing 2.3PB lustre file system. We have over a thousand clients connecting to lustre over mostly QDR