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List:       lustre-discuss
Subject:    [Lustre-discuss] Infiniband Direct SCSI I/O
From:       dmvasil () ornl ! gov (David Vasil)
Date:       2006-05-19 7:36:50
Message-ID: 445B6BBC.3080708 () ornl ! gov
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pauln wrote:
> Keith,
> Are you referring to "srp"?  If that's the case, srp sits at the block
> device layer should not be noticed by lustre as long as it's properly
> importing the blockdevices, assigned to lustre,  from the srp-target. I
> haven't tried to run lustre over a set of srp block devices but there's
> no reason (I know of) that it shouldn't work.
> 
> You can run lustre over IB without using srp if that helps..
> paul

I have configured a DDN9500 with RHEL4, IBGold1.8.0, and lustre 1.4.6.2;
so it is possible.  I am using SRP to access the disks from the OSSs and
then 10gb ethernet to serve the lustre filesystem.  Soon we will be
testing a full IB implementation.

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