Re: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre support for ipv6

2009-07-24 Thread Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR)
In message <1248420309.21455.12.ca...@berloga.shadowland>,Alexey Lyashkov write s: >On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 15:53 -0500, Nicolas Williams wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 09:07:39AM -0500, Mitch Felton wrote: >> > Does anyone know if Lustre 1.8 supports ipv6? >> >> I believe it does not. >> >this

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre support for ipv6

2009-07-24 Thread Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR)
In message <20090724153810.gf1...@sun.com>,Nicolas Williams writes: >We should have a plan for IPv6 though. you should HAVE ipv6 support. this would give you a leg up on other clustered filesystems. some organizations require ipv6 support for future products. you would now have another reason l

Re: [Lustre-discuss] IB storage as an OST target

2011-03-30 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 09:23:59 -0400 Jason Hill wrote: > On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 09:36:43AM -0400, Jason Hill wrote: > storage as well. I would definately suggest putting your LNET and SRP > connections on different physical HCA's to keep the traffic at least isolated > on the OSS side. i doubt

Re: [Lustre-discuss] IB storage as an OST target

2011-03-31 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:00:04 -0400 David Dillow wrote: > While it is true both are full duplex, there are also setup messages > flowing in both directions to set up the large transfers. In the past, > we've certainly seen problems at scale with small messages getting > blocked behind large bulk t

[Lustre-discuss] [bug?] mdc_enter_request() problems

2011-08-08 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
we have seen a few crashes that look like: [250696.381575] RIP: 0010:[] [] mdc_exit_request+0x74/0xb0 [mdc] ... [250696.381575] Call Trace: [250696.381575] [] mdc_intent_getattr_async_interpret+0x82/0x500 [mdc] [250696.381575] [] ptlrpc_check_set+0x200/0x1690 [ptlrpc] [250696.381575] [] ptlr

Re: [Lustre-discuss] [bug?] mdc_enter_request() problems

2011-08-08 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
On Mon, 08 Aug 2011 12:03:25 -0400 chas williams - CONTRACTOR wrote: > later mdc_exit_request() finds this mcw by iterating the list. > seeing as mcw was allocated on the stack, i dont think you can do this. > mcw might have been reused by the time mdc_exit_request() gets around > to

Re: [Lustre-discuss] [bug?] mdc_enter_request() problems

2011-08-09 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
On Tue, 09 Aug 2011 10:29:43 -0600 Kevin Van Maren wrote: > > chas williams - CONTRACTOR wrote: > > nevermind. i see this has been fixed in later releases apparently (i > > was looking at 1.8.5). if l_wait_event() returns "early" (like > > from being interru

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Anybody have a client running on a 2.6.37 or later kernel?

2011-10-25 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
i have some patches to get the 1.8.6-wc1 client running on FC14. i was working on FC15 (which would be 2.6.38) but got distracted. the changes needed to get to 2.6.38 are a bit tedious. the kernel warning flags changed and some of the configure tests need to be re-written a bit so they don't -We

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Interoperable issues between 1.8.6 and 2.1

2012-08-23 Thread chas williams - CONTRACTOR
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 21:00:17 -0400 Ken Hornstein wrote: > >I am not finding where it says explicitly that a lustre client running > >1.8 will successfully be able to read and write to a set of lustre > >servers running lustre 2.1. are there any known issues? > > I forget where that was written d