[Lustre-discuss] Lustre 1.6.5.1 on the box with 2 interfaces

2008-09-24 Thread Lukas Hejtmanek
Hello, I have some difficulties to setup a server acting as metadata server and OST server. The box has two interfaces, eth0 and eth2. eth0 is the primary interface and has the ip which is associated with the hostname. However, I would like to use the eth2 interface for Lustre. In an ideal case,

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre 1.6.5.1 on the box with 2 interfaces

2008-09-24 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 21:41 +0200, Lukas Hejtmanek wrote: > Hello, Hi, > I have some difficulties to setup a server acting as metadata server and OST > server. Let's start by saying putting an MDS and OSS on the same box is not good from both a performance and recovery point of view. If that bo

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre 1.6.5.1 on the box with 2 interfaces

2008-09-24 Thread Klaus Steden
Hi Lukas, Do you want to use these interfaces together as a logical unit? The syntax below would construct two separate LNET networks. Additionally, you would need to qualify the mount path on the client side to bind Lustre to a specific LNET instance, i.e. 'mount /mnt/lustre [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre 1.6.5.1 on the box with 2 interfaces

2008-09-24 Thread Lukas Hejtmanek
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 03:58:36PM -0400, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > Let's start by saying putting an MDS and OSS on the same box is not good > from both a performance and recovery point of view. If that box fails, > recovery can fail. Well, I guess that for the first tests it could be ok :) > >