On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 10:21 -0500, Carlos Santana wrote: > > I am confused about this. Will the files in that OST be unavailable or > some of the files in that filesystem be unavailable?
Both. An OST contains objects. For singly striped files (the default), a single object is the entire file (data). So losing an OST means losing the object which means losing the file (contents). > My impression is that lustre would stripe file data across many OSTs > in terms of objects. It *may*. By default it does not. > So wouldn't failure of one OST will potentially > corrupt the files which have stripes/objects stored over that OST? Yes. This is the other side of the "both" I mentioned above. b.
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