[Lustre-discuss] OSS kernel panic

[Peter Kjellstrom]

On Thursday 04 December 2008, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> 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

Wouldn't it be an idea then to warn/refuse during mkfs.lustre?

/Peter
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