Re: [Lustre-discuss] Unbalanced OSTs

2010-02-18 Thread syed haider
Thank you Andreas, you've answered my question. 4 OST's sounds a lot better than 32! On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Andreas Dilger wrote: > On 2010-02-18, at 10:19, syed haider wrote: > >> 1 combined MGS/MDT, 4 OSS's attached to DDN controller/SAN >> We have 32 1Tb OSTs (8 on each OSS) and bec

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Unbalanced OSTs

2010-02-18 Thread Andreas Dilger
On 2010-02-18, at 10:19, syed haider wrote: > 1 combined MGS/MDT, 4 OSS's attached to DDN controller/SAN > We have 32 1Tb OSTs (8 on each OSS) and because of the nature of our > jobs, the files written to lustre vary greatly (5MB ~ 400GB size > files). > we have very high inconsistencies in dis

[Lustre-discuss] Unbalanced OSTs

2010-02-18 Thread syed haider
Forgive my novice understanding of lustre. Here is my current config: 1 combined MGS/MDT, 4 OSS's attached to DDN controller/SAN. We have 32 1Tb OSTs (8 on each OSS) and because of the nature of our jobs, the files written to lustre vary greatly (5MB ~ 400GB size files). I'm not sure what algorith