Re: [xcat-user] DIRMAINT commands

2013-04-04 Thread Mark Pace
3/2013 02:01:33 PM---One of the problems I've noticed since > testing, building, deleting, rebuilding, is that if the disk > > From: Mark Pace > > To: xCAT Users Mailing list , > Date: 04/03/2013 02:01 PM > Subject: Re: [xcat-user] DIRMAINT commands > -

Re: [xcat-user] DIRMAINT commands

2013-04-03 Thread Thang Pham
the default root disk address (e.g. 0100)? Regards, - Thang Pham IBM Poughkeepsie Phone: (845) 433-7567 e-mail: thang.p...@us.ibm.com From: Mark Pace To: xCAT Users Mailing list , Date: 04/03/2013 02:01 PM Subject:Re: [xcat-user] DIRMAINT

Re: [xcat-user] DIRMAINT commands

2013-04-03 Thread Thang Pham
, - Thang Pham IBM Poughkeepsie Phone: (845) 433-7567 e-mail: thang.p...@us.ibm.com From: Mark Pace To: xCAT Users Mailing list , Date: 04/03/2013 02:01 PM Subject:Re: [xcat-user] DIRMAINT commands One of the problems I've noticed since testing, bui

Re: [xcat-user] DIRMAINT commands

2013-04-03 Thread Mark Pace
But you are correct. DATAMOVE can be fragile. On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Thang Pham wrote: > The reason for not formatting the disk upon delete is it takes some time > for the delete to complete, which could bog you down if you are deleting > >10 nodes at once. Also, the worker machine

Re: [xcat-user] DIRMAINT commands

2013-04-03 Thread Mark Pace
One of the problems I've noticed since testing, building, deleting, rebuilding, is that if the disk already and an existing Linux on it, it boots the old OS and seems to ignore the IPL=00C. If I format the disk first, I don't have this problem. On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Thang Pham wrote:

Re: [xcat-user] DIRMAINT commands

2013-04-03 Thread Thang Pham
The reason for not formatting the disk upon delete is it takes some time for the delete to complete, which could bog you down if you are deleting >10 nodes at once. Also, the worker machine (DATAMOVE) that does the deletion is fragile. I have observed cases where a work unit on DATAMOVE gets stal