[Lustre-discuss] MDT backup (using tar) taking very long

Frederik Ferner frederik.ferner at diamond.ac.uk
Thu Sep 2 09:35:25 PDT 2010


Bernd Schubert wrote:
> On Thursday, September 02, 2010, Frederik Ferner wrote:
>> we are currently reviewing our backup policy for our Lustre file system
>> as backups of the MDT are taking longer and longer.

> Yes, that is due to the size-on-mds feature, which was introduced into 
> 1.6.7.2.  See bug 
> 
> https://bugzilla.lustre.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21376
> 
> It has a patch, that also got accepted in upstream tar last week. You may find 
> updated RHEL5 tar packages on my home page:

Thanks, I'll give that a go. (Any chance of adding the SRPM to your 
download page?)

Cheers,
Frederik

-- 
Frederik Ferner
Computer Systems Administrator		phone: +44 1235 77 8624
Diamond Light Source Ltd.		mob:   +44 7917 08 5110
(Apologies in advance for the lines below. Some bits are a legal
requirement and I have no control over them.)



More information about the lustre-discuss mailing list