[Lustre-discuss] Selection of kernel options for the distributed Lustre kernels

[Arne Wiebalck]

Hi Brian,

> It is.  As I said in my last e-mail, the iSCSI support is in the
> kernel-ib RPM as we build the iSCSI stack from the OFED release.

Ups, sorry, seems I missed that point.

> 
>> Also, as you can turn a disk server into an iSCSI target I would think 
>> that this will more and more become an option to create relatively cheap 
>> shared storage for the MDT.
> 
> Perhaps.  Perhaps not.  I would think that TCP/IP to the storage adds
> latencies.  Latencies would be quite bad for the MDT.

Yes ... perhaps :)
Let's see.

>> Any chance that at least the TCP/IP iSCSI initiator stuff is set back to 
>> the RHEL defaults?
> 
> Is the iSCSI stack in the kernel-ib RPM not working for you?  Please
> describe if that is the case.

I will try it out and let you know.

Thanks for you help,
  Arne

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