[Lustre-discuss] OSS kernel panic

[Andreas Dilger]

On Dec 03, 2008  19:30 -0700, Hummel, Denise wrote:
> We have a lustre filesystem that has been pretty stable since June 2008 on
> a 200 node cluster until three weeks ago.  The OSS kernel panic has
> escalated since then to now about every 2 hours.
> The MDT/MGS is on a x86_64 server with 8G memory and 2 dual core AMD procs
> The OSS is on a x86_64 server with 8G memory and 2 dual core AMD procs
> One OST raid 6 ~9TB (I know it is larger than currently tested) - at 58%

Running with OSTs > 8TB exposes you to filesystem corruption.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.