Re: [Lustre-discuss] failure rates

2009-04-26 Thread Mag Gam
Hi John: From our experience (1 year), we simply love Lustre. Couple of lessons I learned regarding stability: 1) Always have the latest e2fs progs 2) I recommend not to get the latest version available version 3) Run on good hardware. Test your hardware with iozone and bonnie for 72 hours straig

Re: [Lustre-discuss] failure rates

2009-04-24 Thread John White
On Apr 24, 2009, at 9:59 AM, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 09:48 -0700, John White wrote: >> >> I wonder if anyone has any failure metrics on their specific >> installations. We're quite new to the lustre space and wanted to get >> a feel for what we might be in for downti

Re: [Lustre-discuss] failure rates

2009-04-24 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 09:48 -0700, John White wrote: > > I wonder if anyone has any failure metrics on their specific > installations. We're quite new to the lustre space and wanted to get > a feel for what we might be in for downtime-wise. In particular, does > anyone have numbers f

[Lustre-discuss] failure rates

2009-04-24 Thread John White
Hello folks, I wonder if anyone has any failure metrics on their specific installations. We're quite new to the lustre space and wanted to get a feel for what we might be in for downtime-wise. In particular, does anyone have numbers for the mean time between failure and mean time to