Many thanks, Simon and Andreas. I agree the behaviour makes sense. Apologies for not checking the documentation.
Kind regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Otto Senior Research Infrastructure Developer UCL Centre for Advanced Research Computing Tel: 020 7679 1506 ________________________________ From: lustre-discuss <lustre-discuss-boun...@lists.lustre.org> on behalf of Andreas Dilger via lustre-discuss <lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org> Sent: 29 April 2024 19:29 To: Simon Guilbault <simon.guilba...@calculquebec.ca> Cc: lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org <lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org> Subject: Re: [lustre-discuss] [EXTERNAL] [BULK] Files created in append mode don't obey directory default stripe count ⚠ Caution: External sender Simon is exactly correct. This is expected behavior for files opened with O_APPEND, at least until LU-12738 is implemented. Since O_APPEND writes are (by definition) entirely serialized, having multiple stripes on such files is mostly useless and just adds overhead. Feel free to read https://jira.whamcloud.com/browse/LU-9341 for the very lengthy saga on the history of this behavior. Cheers, Andreas On Apr 29, 2024, at 10:42, Simon Guilbault <simon.guilba...@calculquebec.ca<mailto:simon.guilba...@calculquebec.ca>> wrote: This is the expected behaviour. In the original implementation of PFL, when a file was open in append mode, the lock from 0 to EOF was initializing all stripes of the PFL file. We have a PFL layout on our system with 1 stripe up to 1 GB, then it increased to 4 and then 32 stripes when the file was getting very large. This was a problem with software that was creating 4kb log files (like slurm.out) because they were creating files with > 32 stripes because of the append mode. This was patched a few releases ago, that behaviour can be changed, but I would recommend keeping 1 stripe for files that are using append mode. From the manual: O_APPEND mode. When files are opened for append, they instantiate all uninitialized components expressed in the layout. Typically, log files are opened for append, and complex layouts can be inefficient. Note The mdd.*.append_stripe_count and mdd.*.append_pool options can be used to specify special default striping for files created with O_APPEND. On Mon, Apr 29, 2024 at 11:21 AM Vicker, Darby J. (JSC-EG111)[Jacobs Technology, Inc.] via lustre-discuss <lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org<mailto:lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org>> wrote: Wow, I would say that is definitely not expected. I can recreate this on both of our LFS’s. One is community lustre 2.14, the other is a DDN Exascalar. Shown below is our community lustre but we also have a 3-segment PFL on our Exascalar and the behavor is the same there. $ echo > aaa $ echo >> bbb $ lfs getstripe aaa bbb aaa lcm_layout_gen: 3 lcm_mirror_count: 1 lcm_entry_count: 3 lcme_id: 1 lcme_mirror_id: 0 lcme_flags: init lcme_extent.e_start: 0 lcme_extent.e_end: 33554432 lmm_stripe_count: 1 lmm_stripe_size: 4194304 lmm_pattern: raid0 lmm_layout_gen: 0 lmm_stripe_offset: 6 lmm_objects: - 0: { l_ost_idx: 6, l_fid: [0x100060000:0xace8112:0x0] } lcme_id: 2 lcme_mirror_id: 0 lcme_flags: 0 lcme_extent.e_start: 33554432 lcme_extent.e_end: 10737418240 lmm_stripe_count: 4 lmm_stripe_size: 4194304 lmm_pattern: raid0 lmm_layout_gen: 0 lmm_stripe_offset: -1 lcme_id: 3 lcme_mirror_id: 0 lcme_flags: 0 lcme_extent.e_start: 10737418240 lcme_extent.e_end: EOF lmm_stripe_count: 8 lmm_stripe_size: 4194304 lmm_pattern: raid0 lmm_layout_gen: 0 lmm_stripe_offset: -1 bbb lmm_stripe_count: 1 lmm_stripe_size: 2097152 lmm_pattern: raid0 lmm_layout_gen: 0 lmm_stripe_offset: 3 obdidx objid objid group 3 179773949 0xab721fd 0 From: lustre-discuss <lustre-discuss-boun...@lists.lustre.org<mailto:lustre-discuss-boun...@lists.lustre.org>> on behalf of Otto, Frank via lustre-discuss <lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org<mailto:lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org>> Date: Monday, April 29, 2024 at 8:33 AM To: lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org<mailto:lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org> <lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org<mailto:lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org>> Subject: [EXTERNAL] [BULK] [lustre-discuss] Files created in append mode don't obey directory default stripe count CAUTION: This email originated from outside of NASA. Please take care when clicking links or opening attachments. Use the "Report Message" button to report suspicious messages to the NASA SOC. See subject. Is it a known issue? Is it expected? Easy to reproduce: # lfs getstripe . . stripe_count: 4 stripe_size: 1048576 pattern: raid0 stripe_offset: -1 # echo > aaa # echo >> bbb # lfs getstripe . . stripe_count: 4 stripe_size: 1048576 pattern: raid0 stripe_offset: -1 ./aaa lmm_stripe_count: 4 lmm_stripe_size: 1048576 lmm_pattern: raid0 lmm_layout_gen: 0 lmm_stripe_offset: 0 obdidx objid objid group 0 2830 0xb0e 0 1 2894 0xb4e 0 2 2831 0xb0f 0 3 2895 0xb4f 0 ./bbb lmm_stripe_count: 1 lmm_stripe_size: 1048576 lmm_pattern: raid0 lmm_layout_gen: 0 lmm_stripe_offset: 4 obdidx objid objid group 4 2831 0xb0f 0 As you see, file "bbb" is created with stripe count 1 instead of 4. Observed in Lustre 2.12.x and Lustre 2.15.4. Thanks, Frank -- Dr. Frank Otto Senior Research Infrastructure Developer UCL Centre for Advanced Research Computing Tel: 020 7679 1506 _______________________________________________ lustre-discuss mailing list lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org<mailto:lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org> http://lists.lustre.org/listinfo.cgi/lustre-discuss-lustre.org _______________________________________________ lustre-discuss mailing list lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org<mailto:lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org> http://lists.lustre.org/listinfo.cgi/lustre-discuss-lustre.org Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Lustre Principal Architect Whamcloud
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