> On Oct 30, 2017, at 4:46 PM, Brian Andrus <toomuc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Someone please correct me if I am wrong, but that seems a bit large of an > MDT. Of course drives these days are pretty good sized, so the extra is > probably very inexpensive.
That probably depends on what the primary usage will be. If the applications create lots of small files (like some biomed programs), then a larger MDT would result in more inodes allowing more Lustre files to be created. -- Rick Mohr Senior HPC System Administrator National Institute for Computational Sciences http://www.nics.tennessee.edu _______________________________________________ lustre-discuss mailing list lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org http://lists.lustre.org/listinfo.cgi/lustre-discuss-lustre.org