At installation time you may choose how metadata is distributed. When running pvfs2-genconfig, you specify the servers that will hold metadata. This may be just one server, a subset of the data servers, or a different set altogether.
Hope that helps! Elaine On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 11:45 PM, Tim Wissman <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > I have a new install of OrangeFS (2.8.8) and i have been asked how the > metadata activities are handled. Specifically, is there one metadata server > (like in Lustre) or is is distributed across all of the storage nodes? the > few video's and docs i have read seem to indicate the later, but i want to > make sure. > > thanks. > > > tim > > _______________________________________________ > Pvfs2-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.beowulf-underground.org/mailman/listinfo/pvfs2-users > >
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