[Lustre-discuss] md and mdadm in 1.8.7-wc1

[Samuel Aparicio]

I appreciate your taking the time to do that. If it looks like it basically works we'll give it a try and see if the md issues go away.
we have a pair of OSS servers we can try this on with a 200Tb filesystem and not risk losing anything important,
so I think what we may do is compare the 1.8.7 build against a newer kernel, with the 2.1.1 release,
which looks like it is approaching stability for production environments and see how that fares with mdadm




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On Mar 20, 2012, at 2:53 PM, Joe Landman wrote:

> On 03/20/2012 02:42 PM, Samuel Aparicio wrote:
>> Thanks for this.
>> 
>> we have zero experience of patching lustre 1.8.7 against newer kernels,
>> are there any known pitfalls we should avoid.
> 
> I just completed a (completely untested at the moment) build of 
> 2.6.32.59.scalable with 1.8.7 patches.  We'll do some testing here 
> first, but if it looks like it works well, we'll put a pointer to the 
> RPM.  Or if you want to risk your dog biting you while your servers 
> possibly exploding, strafing your data center with untold numbers of 
> bits, and a diskful or two of lost metadata, I'd be happy to make it 
> available before our testing (we don't care if we lose data on our test 
> rigs) begins.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Joe
> 
> 
> 
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