[Lustre-discuss] More detail regarding soft lockup error

[Ms. Megan Larko]

I will add emphasis here.  Backup the MDT before doing anything at
all.   The MDT backup procedure is short and documented in the Lustre
Manual.

Megan
(MDT back-up saved my bacon)
Larko


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Kevin said:

Message: 3
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 10:58:36 -0600
From: Kevin Van Maren <kevin.van.maren at oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [Lustre-discuss] More detail regarding soft lockup error
To: "Brian J. Murrell" <brian.murrell at oracle.com>
Cc: lustre-discuss at lists.lustre.org
Message-ID: <4C6D62BC.1060405 at oracle.com>
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Andreas _always_ recommends a backup first.

Kevin


Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 10:09 -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
>
>> If you increase the size of the MDT (via resize2fs) it will increase the number of inodes as well.
>>
>
> Andreas: what is [y]our confidence level with resize2fs and our MDT?
> Given that I don't think we regularly (if at all) test this in our QA
> cycles (although I wish we would) I personally would be a lot more
> comfortable with a backup first.  What are your thoughts?  Unnecessary?
>
> b.