<html><body><p><font size="2">Yes, this will be fixed in the next ESS release. </font><br><font size="2"><br><br>Steve Duersch<br>Spectrum Scale/ESS<br>IBM Poughkeepsie, New York<br></font><br><br><tt><font size="2">gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org wrote on 03/28/2019 07:01:26 PM:<br><br><br>> <br>> Message: 4<br>> Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2019 23:01:24 +0000<br>> From: Luke Sudbery <L.R.Sudbery@bham.ac.uk><br>> To: "scale@us.ibm.com" <scale@us.ibm.com>, gpfsug main discussion list<br>> <gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org><br>> Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Filesystem descriptor discs for GNR<br>> Message-ID:<br>> <DF8E9955CA48D949A5E04A33E950F66A0A8F83E4@EX11.adf.bham.ac.uk><br>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"<br>> <br>> Thanks, that worked.<br>> <br>> Will this be addresses in a future update?<br>> <br>> Cheers,<br>> <br>> Luke<br>> <br>> --<br>> Luke Sudbery<br>> Architecture, Infrastructure and Systems<br>> Advanced Research Computing, IT Services<br>> Room 103, Computer Centre G5, Elms Road<br>> <br>> Please note I don't work on Monday and work from home on Friday.<br>> <br>> From: Truong Vu <truongv@us.ibm.com> On Behalf Of scale@us.ibm.com<br>> Sent: 28 March 2019 20:09<br>> To: gpfsug main discussion list <gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org>; <br>> Luke Sudbery (IT Research Support) <L.R.Sudbery@bham.ac.uk><br>> Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Filesystem descriptor discs for GNR<br>> <br>> <br>> This is a known issue. The workaround is to use --force-nsd-mismatch<br>> option. Just make sure that the failure group is different from <br>> those used by the vdisk NSDs<br>> <br>> Regards, The Spectrum Scale (GPFS) team<br>> <br>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>> If you feel that your question can benefit other users of Spectrum <br>> Scale (GPFS), then please post it to the public IBM developerWroks Forum at <br>> <a href="https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/forums/html/forum?">https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/forums/html/forum?</a><br>> id=11111111-0000-0000-0000-000000000479.<br>> <br>> If your query concerns a potential software error in Spectrum Scale <br>> (GPFS) and you have an IBM software maintenance contract please <br>> contact 1-800-237-5511 in the United States or your local IBM <br>> Service Center in other countries.<br>> <br>> The forum is informally monitored as time permits and should not be <br>> used for priority messages to the Spectrum Scale (GPFS) team.<br>> <br>> [Inactive hide details for Luke Sudbery ---03/28/2019 01:45:16 PM---<br>> We have a 2 site Lenovo DSS-G based filesystem, which with (]Luke <br>> Sudbery ---03/28/2019 01:45:16 PM---We have a 2 site Lenovo DSS-G <br>> based filesystem, which with (some of the data) replicated across the<br>> <br>> From: Luke Sudbery <L.R.Sudbery@bham.ac.uk<<a href="mailto:L.R.Sudbery@bham.ac.uk">mailto:L.R.Sudbery@bham.ac.uk</a>>><br>> To: "gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org<<a href="mailto:gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org">mailto:gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org</a><br>> >" <gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org<<a href="mailto:gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org">mailto:gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org</a>>><br>> Date: 03/28/2019 01:45 PM<br>> Subject: [gpfsug-discuss] Filesystem descriptor discs for GNR<br>> Sent by: gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org<<a href="mailto:gpfsug-">mailto:gpfsug-</a><br>> discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org><br>> <br>> ________________________________<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> We have a 2 site Lenovo DSS-G based filesystem, which with (some of <br>> the data) replicated across the 2 sites. We'd like to a 3rd <br>> filesystem descriptor disk so we can lose one site and still have <br>> filesystem descriptor quorum. But this seems incompatible unless we <br>> make new vdisks - which we can't do on non native raid servers.<br>> <br>> We've added a new NSD which now has a free disc, but can't add that <br>> disk as descOnly.<br>> <br>> Adding the new descriptor disk to the system pool says:<br>> mmadddisk: A storage pool may not contain both vdisk NSDs and non-vdisk NSDs.<br>> <br>> Adding the new disk to a new system_desc pool says:<br>> mmadddisk: Disk usage descOnly is incompatible with storage pool system_desc.<br>> <br>> Tried adding config to specify the system_desc pool is for <br>> metadataOnly and it still says it's incompatible.<br>> <br>> There is no mention of descOnly disks here: <a href="https://www.ibm.com/">https://www.ibm.com/</a><br>> support/knowledgecenter/en/SSFKCN_4.1.0/<br>> com.ibm.cluster.gpfs.v4r1.gpfs200.doc/bl1adv_planning.htm<br>> <br>> Is it possible add a non-vdisk descOnly NSD to a dss-g/GNR solution?<br>> <br>> Cheers,<br>> <br>> Luke<br>> <br>> --<br>> Luke Sudbery<br>> Architecture, Infrastructure and Systems<br>> Advanced Research Computing, IT Services<br>> Room 103, Computer Centre G5, Elms Road<br>> <br>> Please note I don't work on Monday and work from home on Friday.<br>> <br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> gpfsug-discuss mailing list<br>> gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org<br>> <a href="INVALID URI REMOVED">INVALID URI REMOVED</a><br>> u=http-3A__gpfsug.org_mailman_listinfo_gpfsug-2Ddiscuss&d=DwICAg&c=jf_iaSHvJObTbx-<br>> siA1ZOg&r=i9wd-Alr3Ob6d70ipuobv4HluF-A_L8fotaxDbaUusQ&m=RS2O8L4G7-<br>> l266MoVBkRNGQjapCFZuheqRvoEG9xoiQ&s=Ol12Q__YLpxI_KprxbT_wjm2g7ObK2g_hXUn3WmpLw0&e=<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> -------------- next part --------------<br>> An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>> URL: <<a href="INVALID URI REMOVED">INVALID URI REMOVED</a><br>> u=http-3A__gpfsug.org_pipermail_gpfsug-2Ddiscuss_attachments_20190328_a569dbad_attachment.html&d=DwICAg&c=jf_iaSHvJObTbx-<br>> siA1ZOg&r=i9wd-Alr3Ob6d70ipuobv4HluF-A_L8fotaxDbaUusQ&m=RS2O8L4G7-<br>> l266MoVBkRNGQjapCFZuheqRvoEG9xoiQ&s=IR6LgLZTDNs87fORc9RtsmNMPIFcGdNXYeqFlnMe0L8&e=<br>> ><br>> -------------- next part --------------<br>> A non-text attachment was scrubbed...<br>> Name: image001.gif<br>> Type: image/gif<br>> Size: 105 bytes<br>> Desc: image001.gif<br>> URL: <<a href="INVALID URI REMOVED">INVALID URI REMOVED</a><br>> u=http-3A__gpfsug.org_pipermail_gpfsug-2Ddiscuss_attachments_20190328_a569dbad_attachment.gif&d=DwICAg&c=jf_iaSHvJObTbx-<br>> siA1ZOg&r=i9wd-Alr3Ob6d70ipuobv4HluF-A_L8fotaxDbaUusQ&m=RS2O8L4G7-<br>> l266MoVBkRNGQjapCFZuheqRvoEG9xoiQ&s=onn-<br>> LxPodPw4pzzTt79rj0V5MFxfk8luNCGIbplikyw&e=><br>> <br>> ------------------------------<br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> gpfsug-discuss mailing list<br>> gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org<br>> <a href="INVALID URI REMOVED">INVALID URI REMOVED</a><br>> u=http-3A__gpfsug.org_mailman_listinfo_gpfsug-2Ddiscuss&d=DwICAg&c=jf_iaSHvJObTbx-<br>> siA1ZOg&r=i9wd-Alr3Ob6d70ipuobv4HluF-A_L8fotaxDbaUusQ&m=RS2O8L4G7-<br>> l266MoVBkRNGQjapCFZuheqRvoEG9xoiQ&s=Ol12Q__YLpxI_KprxbT_wjm2g7ObK2g_hXUn3WmpLw0&e=<br>> <br>> <br>> End of gpfsug-discuss Digest, Vol 86, Issue 62<br>> **********************************************<br>> <br></font></tt><BR>
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