Re: [Lustre-discuss] How smart is Lustre?

2012-12-27 Thread Jason Brooks
Hey, thanks you guys! I appreciate it a lot! --jason On Dec 20, 2012, at 12:11 PM, David Noriega wrote: > In my experience, if there is a particular driver for multipathing from the > vendor, go for that. In our setup, we have Oracle/Sun disk arrays and with > the standard linux multipathing

Re: [Lustre-discuss] How smart is Lustre?

2012-12-20 Thread David Noriega
In my experience, if there is a particular driver for multipathing from the vendor, go for that. In our setup, we have Oracle/Sun disk arrays and with the standard linux multipathing daemon, I would get lots of weird I/O errors. Turns out the disk arrays had picked their preferred path, but Linux w

Re: [Lustre-discuss] How smart is Lustre?

2012-12-19 Thread Philippe Weill
Le 19/12/2012 22:38, Dilger, Andreas a écrit : > On 2012-12-19, at 11:22, "Allen, Benjamin > S"mailto:b...@lanl.gov>> wrote: > > Hi Jason, > > 2. Having two paths to your storage should speed things up. I'm guessing > you'd have more than one LUN on the array, > so you could do something as simp

Re: [Lustre-discuss] How smart is Lustre?

2012-12-19 Thread Dilger, Andreas
On 2012-12-19, at 11:22, "Allen, Benjamin S" mailto:b...@lanl.gov>> wrote: Hi Jason, 2. Having two paths to your storage should speed things up. I'm guessing you'd have more than one LUN on the array, so you could do something as simple as splitting the LUNs between the two paths, or use round

Re: [Lustre-discuss] How smart is Lustre?

2012-12-19 Thread Allen, Benjamin S
Hi Jason, 1. You provide Lustre, when formatting with mkfs.lustre, a standard block device. If you want Lustre to use the multi-pathed device, you'll need to setup Linux MPIO, then use the multi-pathed device path. Failover between redundant OSS or MDS is not controlled by Lustre either. You w

Re: [Lustre-discuss] How smart is Lustre?

2012-12-19 Thread Philippe Weill
Le 19/12/2012 18:36, Jason Brooks a écrit : > Hello, > > I am building a 2.3.x filesystem right now, and I am looking at setting up > some active-active > failover abilities to my oss's. I have been looking at Dell's md3xxx arrays, > as they have redundant > controllers, and allow up to four host

[Lustre-discuss] How smart is Lustre?

2012-12-19 Thread Jason Brooks
Hello, I am building a 2.3.x filesystem right now, and I am looking at setting up some active-active failover abilities to my oss's. I have been looking at Dell's md3xxx arrays, as they have redundant controllers, and allow up to four hosts to connect to each controller. I can see how linux m