Re: [Lustre-discuss] MGS disk size and activity

2009-10-09 Thread Wojciech Turek
Hi, I am very interested in finding out how to move co-located MGS to separate disk. I will be moving my MDTs to new hardware soon and I would like to separate MGS from MDT. I will be grateful for some info on this subject please. Many thanks, Wojciech 2008/6/23 Andreas Dilger > On Jun 17, 20

Re: [Lustre-discuss] MGS disk size and activity

2008-06-24 Thread Andreas Dilger
On Jun 17, 2008 12:40 -0700, Klaus Steden wrote: > I have a question ... if the MGS is used so infrequently relative to the use > of the MDS, why is it (is it?) problematic to locate it on the same volume > as the MDT? If you have multiple MDTs on the same MDS node (i.e. multiple Lustre filesyste

Re: [Lustre-discuss] MGS disk size and activity

2008-06-17 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 12:40 -0700, Klaus Steden wrote: > > I have a question ... if the MGS is used so infrequently relative to the use > of the MDS, why is it (is it?) problematic to locate it on the same volume > as the MDT? Our mountconf expert engineers probably know all of the reasons but o

Re: [Lustre-discuss] MGS disk size and activity

2008-06-17 Thread Klaus Steden
>> I don't think it would >> be much, such that could it share spindles with the journal for the >> MDS file system? > > Hrm. Given it's relatively low use, I'd think that would be fine. > I have a question ... if the MGS is used so infrequently relative to the use of the MDS, why is it (is i

Re: [Lustre-discuss] MGS disk size and activity

2008-06-17 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 11:09 -0400, Brock Palen wrote: > A post a few days back recommended that the MGS be placed on its own > disk for all but "toy" setups I think was the comment. Yeah. > How much space does the MGS require? Very little. I think we have discussed here that 100MB should be l

[Lustre-discuss] MGS disk size and activity

2008-06-17 Thread Brock Palen
A post a few days back recommended that the MGS be placed on its own disk for all but "toy" setups I think was the comment. How much space does the MGS require? Is it based on the number of hosts? Or just the number of lustre file systems (we expect only 1 but maybe more in future). Last