Re: [lustre-discuss] Lustre Server Sizing

2015-07-23 Thread Indivar Nair
Thanks for the input everyone. At one other site (check other mail, Subject: Speeding up Recovery), I have two gateway nodes with Samba+CTDB, working fine and is quite stable. I don't have NFS on it though. Andreas, I am considering RAID60 to balance space and speed (currently they have RAID50).

Re: [lustre-discuss] Speeding up recovery

2015-07-23 Thread Indivar Nair
Hi Andreas, Thanks for the input. I checked the document and found this topic - https://build.hpdd.intel.com/job/lustre-manual/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/lustre_manual.xhtml#dbdoclet.50438199_62545 I have MGT and MDT on separate devices. So is there anyway to reconfigure the MGT to use the ne

Re: [lustre-discuss] What happens if my data to be written is lesser than the stripe size

2015-07-23 Thread Ben Evans
If you have a stripe spanning multiple OSTs, it will allocate objects on each OST. Until you write data to them, they will be empty. In your example, only 100KB of data will be written to disk. From: lustre-discuss [mailto:lustre-discuss-boun...@lists.lustre.org] On Behalf Of prakrati.agra...@