[lustre-discuss] Mixed size OST's

2018-03-15 Thread Steve Thompson
Lustre newbie here (1 month). Lustre 2.10.3, CentOS 7.4, ZFS 0.7.5. All networking is 10 GbE. I am building a test Lustre filesystem. So far, I have two OSS's, each with 30 disks of 2 TB each, all in a single zpool per OSS. Everything works well, and was suprisingly easy to build. Thus, two OS

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

2018-03-16 Thread Martin Hecht
On 03/15/2018 04:48 PM, Steve Thompson wrote: > If I go with one OST per system (one zpool comprising 8 x 6 RAIDZ2 > vdevs), I will have a lustre f/s comprised of two 60 TB OST's and two > 192 TB OST's (minus RAIDZ2 overhead). This is obviously a big mismatch > between OST sizes. Depending on how f

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

2018-03-16 Thread Dilger, Andreas
On Mar 15, 2018, at 09:48, Steve Thompson wrote: > > Lustre newbie here (1 month). Lustre 2.10.3, CentOS 7.4, ZFS 0.7.5. All > networking is 10 GbE. > > I am building a test Lustre filesystem. So far, I have two OSS's, each with > 30 disks of 2 TB each, all in a single zpool per OSS. Everythin

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
. * Patrick From: lustre-discuss on behalf of "E.S. Rosenberg" Date: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 at 2:46 PM To: "Dilger, Andreas" Cc: "lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org" Subject: Re: [lustre-discuss] Mixed size OST's Doesn't PFL also 'solve'/mitigate th