Re: [lustre-discuss] Mixed size OST's

2018-03-20 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Doesn't PFL also 'solve'/mitigate this issue in the sense that a file doesn't have to remain restricted to the OST(s) it started on? (And as such balancing will even continue as files grow) Regards, Eli On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 9:57 PM, Dilger, Andreas wrote: > On Mar 15, 2018, at 09:48, Steve Th

Re: [lustre-discuss] Mixed size OST's

2018-03-20 Thread Patrick Farrell
Not unless you set a very complex layout, with a lot of components in it (which has various flaws of its own). Otherwise you’ll fairly quickly hit your final component for large files, and then you’re stuck. This limitation is the motivation behind the work proposed in LU-10070. * Patric