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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Slawomir Nowakowski <slawomir.nowakowski@open-e.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Artur Piechocki <artur.piechocki@open-e.com>,
	xfs@oss.sgi.com,
	'Ryszard Stawiarski' <ryszard.stawiarski@open-e.com>,
	??ukasz Wittig <lukasz.wittig@open-e.com>
Subject: Re: Problem with file system on iSCSI FileIO
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 03:55:05 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100924075505.GA24664@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C9B6B27.5050606@open-e.com>

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 04:58:47PM +0200, Slawomir Nowakowski wrote:
> iSCSI FileIO is using struct file that serves it as block level
> device via iSCSI technology:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISCSI

Thanks, I know ISCSI very well.  But what is "iSCSI FileIO" ?  The above
sounds like it's an iscsi target, is that correct?

> There are RAID level 6 unit on the Areca RAID controller (1680). On
> the unit is created a volume group. In the volume group we have
> several logical volumes. The iSCSI FileIO volume is mounted and the
> file (lun) is served via SCST target as iSCSI LUN.
> 
> We have checked RAM with memtest+ and verified RAID unit health and
> no issues were found.

I still can't make any sense of the actual setups.

The above seems to be the backend storage.  Then there's SCST somewhere
in which is in a out of tree kernel module.  And then you use XFS
somewhere.  Please provide a full description of the setup.

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-24  7:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-23 13:35 Problem with file system on iSCSI FileIO Slawomir Nowakowski
2010-09-23 14:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-23 14:58   ` Slawomir Nowakowski
2010-09-24  7:55     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2010-09-24 11:11       ` Slawomir Nowakowski
2010-09-24 13:18         ` Emmanuel Florac
2010-09-24 13:46           ` Slawomir Nowakowski
2010-09-25 15:56         ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-25 16:54           ` Richard Sharpe
2010-09-25 17:01             ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-25 17:14               ` Richard Sharpe
2010-09-24 13:18       ` Emmanuel Florac
2010-09-24 13:49         ` Slawomir Nowakowski
2010-09-24 14:04           ` Emmanuel Florac
2010-09-24 15:10       ` Richard Sharpe
2010-09-24 18:18         ` Emmanuel Florac
2010-09-24 20:46           ` Ryszard Stawiarski
2010-09-25 14:13             ` Emmanuel Florac
2010-09-25 14:18               ` Richard Sharpe
2010-09-25 19:01                 ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2010-09-25 21:23                   ` Emmanuel Florac

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