Re: [Lustre-discuss] [wc-discuss] Re: [Lustre-devel] [Twg] Lustre and cross-platform portability

2012-03-16 Thread Gregory Matthews
On 15/03/12 19:51, Joshua Walgenbach wrote: For my part, a Lustre client on Windows or OS X would be used mostly for visualization of data, rather than being computed against so a slower user space implementation would be more than sufficient. There are a few applications that are using an SMB

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Setting up quotas after the fact

2011-03-14 Thread Gregory Matthews
Johann Lombardi wrote: On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 04:52:21PM +, Gregory Matthews wrote: That sounds to me like it is only hitting the MDT and not the OSTs. No, it hits both. Fortunately, quotacheck is run in parallel on the MDT and the OSTs, that's why it scales well. ah ok. thanks

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Setting up quotas after the fact

2011-03-11 Thread Gregory Matthews
That sounds to me like it is only hitting the MDT and not the OSTs. which would mean if you have a lustre system that has been upgraded from an older version, most of the file sizes reported on the MDT will be zero and this must affect the validity of the quotacheck... GREG Johann Lombardi

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre module not getting loaded in MDS

2010-09-16 Thread Gregory Matthews
We've had problems with suse in the past. These were avoided by creating /etc/rc.d/after.local containing: modprobe lustre mount -a not pretty, but effective. GREG liang.whamcloud wrote: Hi Prasad, I'm not a SuSe user but I think it's because your system is trying to load lustre modules

[Lustre-discuss] SSD caching of MDT

2010-08-19 Thread Gregory Matthews
Article by Jeff Layton: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7839 anyone have views on whether this sort of caching would be useful for the MDT? My feeling is that MDT reads are probably pretty random but writes might benefit...? GREG -- Greg Matthews01235 778658 Senior Computer Systems

[Lustre-discuss] LustreError: lookup/take lock error -13

2010-07-16 Thread Gregory Matthews
Does anyone recognise the following logs: Jul 15 18:24:40 cs04r-sc-mds01-01 kernel: LustreError: 17241:0:(mds_open.c:1053:mds_open()) parent 121938276/854916762 lookup/take lock error -13 Jul 15 18:24:40 cs04r-sc-mds01-01 kernel: LustreError: 17241:0:(mds_open.c:1053:mds_open()) Skipped 5

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Future of lustre 1.8.3+

2010-05-26 Thread Gregory Matthews
Guy Coates wrote: One thing to watch out for in your kernel configs is to make sure that: CONFIG_SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES=N I hope this is not the case for the now obsolete: CONFIG_EXT3_FS_SECURITY=y which appears to be enabled by default on RHEL5.x Its not entirely clear to me what this

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Problems with MDS Crashing

2010-05-18 Thread Gregory Matthews
Gary Brooks wrote: Then, all of the sudden the MDS stops responding, ssh sessions die and only hard restart helps. After the restart, /var/log/messages contains normal information (some timeout chit-chat). is your hardware using the bnx2 NIC driver? We've just been seeing very similar

[Lustre-discuss] [Fwd: Re: Problems with fstab entry on sles11]

2010-05-04 Thread Gregory Matthews
oops... this was meant for the list... Original Message Subject: Re: [Lustre-discuss] Problems with fstab entry on sles11 Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 08:42:37 +0100 From: Gregory Matthews greg.matth...@diamond.ac.uk To: Brian J. Murrell brian.murr...@oracle.com References

Re: [Lustre-discuss] BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: modprobe/6024

2010-03-23 Thread Gregory Matthews
if it helps, I have longer stack traces... Mar 21 05:31:42 dec055 kernel: BUG: scheduling while atomic: cat/4439/0x0002 Mar 21 05:31:42 dec055 kernel: Modules linked in:3BUG: scheduling while atomic: cat/4508/0x0002 Mar 21 05:31:42 dec055 kernel: mgc lustre lov mdc lquotaModules linked

Re: [Lustre-discuss] BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: modprobe/6024

2010-03-18 Thread Gregory Matthews
Andreas... Andreas Dilger wrote: On 2010-03-17, at 02:59, Gregory Matthews wrote: Gregory Matthews wrote: BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [] code: modprobe/6024 caller is set_ptldebug_header+0x41/0xa0 [libcfs] Pid: 6024, comm: modprobe Not tainted 2.6.27.39-default #2

Re: [Lustre-discuss] BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: modprobe/6024

2010-03-17 Thread Gregory Matthews
Well, I'm no expert at reading the the kernel bugzilla but... Gregory Matthews wrote: BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [] code: modprobe/6024 caller is set_ptldebug_header+0x41/0xa0 [libcfs] Pid: 6024, comm: modprobe Not tainted 2.6.27.39-default #2 Call Trace

[Lustre-discuss] BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: modprobe/6024

2010-03-16 Thread Gregory Matthews
I get lots of these errors when using Lustre with a preempt kernel. Earlier discussions on this list suggested that preempt should work even tho it used to be blocked during the build process. This is with freshly compiled 1.8.2 patchless clients, vanilla 2.6.27.39 kernel on OpenSuse 10.3. The

[Lustre-discuss] lost data after MDS failover

2010-02-17 Thread Gregory Matthews
We had an LBUG on our MDS (on 15th Feb) and so attempted a failover to the 2nd MGS/MDS server. This mounted the MGT fine but hung while mounting the MDT (longer than 5 minutes). To resolve the problem I unmounted the MGT and the MDT on a freshly booted MDS/MGS and mounted the MDT as ldiskfs.

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre support contract?

2009-05-26 Thread Gregory Matthews
Adeyemi Adesanya wrote: Does anyone know if Sun offer support agreements for Lustre? We would consider paying for up-to-date RHEL5 patched kernel builds and RPMs. I tried to get information on Lustre support from Sun and having rung many different numbers and been passed between many