[lustre-discuss] File Level Redundancy - Data Movement

2021-02-17 Thread Indivar Nair
Hi All, I was going through the FLR feature in the Lustre Manual and had some questions. 1. If we run the "lfs mirror" command on an existing file or directory, how is the file ' directory copied from one OST to another? Is the copying done by the Lustre client on which this command was run?

Re: [lustre-discuss] Fwd: ldiskfs vs zfs

2021-02-17 Thread Cameron Harr via lustre-discuss
Sudheendra, You will get varied answers depending on who you ask. For us, we are strong believers in ZFS. Of course, as a major contributor to ZFS-on-Linux, we're heavily biased, but we believe the management features (snapshots, etc) outweigh any performance deficiencies compared to ldiskfs,

[lustre-discuss] Lustre Usage Survey: Input Requested

2021-02-17 Thread OpenSFS Administration
Dear Lustre Community, The OpenSFS Lustre Working Group has launched the tenth annual survey for organizations using Lustre. We are looking for trends in Lustre usage to assist with future planning on releases and will present the results at LUG. Please complete this short survey (https://w

Re: [lustre-discuss] Disabling max creates and migrating data doesn't seem to be reducing the usage on an OST

2021-02-17 Thread Nathan Dauchy - NOAA Affiliate via lustre-discuss
On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 9:46 AM Kurt Strosahl wrote: > During a maintenance window today I revooted the OSS that OST had been > mounted on, after it came up the usage dropped significantly > Kurt, That behavior you describe sounds a bit like issues reported on this list a while back: Data migr

Re: [lustre-discuss] [EXTERNAL] Re: Disabling max creates and migrating data doesn't seem to be reducing the usage on an OST

2021-02-17 Thread Kurt Strosahl
We are running 2.12.1, which we've been running for more then a year now. A reboot of the OST cleaned it up. From: Nathan Dauchy - NOAA Affiliate Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2021 4:36 PM To: Kurt Strosahl ; lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org Subject: [EXTERNAL]

[lustre-discuss] Compiling 2.14 + ZFS 2.0.2 on Debian

2021-02-17 Thread Christian Kuntz
Hello, I hope I'm communicating in the right place here, I'm currently working to compile Lustre 2.14.0-RC2 on Debian 10.7 with ZFS 2.0.2 for OSDs. If there's anything I can do to help with the testing effort or help Lustre's Debian support be more robust, please let me know! I hope I'm not too la

[lustre-discuss] MGS IP in a HA cluster

2021-02-17 Thread Sid Young
G'day all, I'm trying to get my head around configuring a new Lustre 2.12.6 cluster on Centos 7.9, in particular the correct IP(s) for the MGS. In a pacemaker based MDS cluster, when I define the IP for the HA, is that the same IP used when referencing the MGS, or is the MGS IP only specified by

[lustre-discuss] Request of Lustre ldiskfs porting to vanilla Linux kernel

2021-02-17 Thread Tung-Han Hsieh
Dear All, I hope that this is the right place to post our feature request of Lustre file system. Currently Lustre file system with ldiskfs backend server has to compiled with specified Linux kernel versions of RedHat, or SuSE, or other distributions which we haven't tried. But this is very inconv

Re: [lustre-discuss] MGS IP in a HA cluster

2021-02-17 Thread Indivar Nair
Hi Sid, 1. -- You don't need a Cluster/Virtual IP for Lustre. Only the MGT, MDT and OST volumes need to be failed over. When these volumes are failed over to the other server, all the components of the Lustre file system are informed about this failover, and they will then continue accessing t