Fw: Re: [Pvfs2-developers] Re: [Pvfs2-users] OrangeFS on nodes with different storage space capacities.

2012-03-07 Thread Andrew Savchenko
[sorry, forgot to CC list] Hello, On Tue, 06 Mar 2012 09:42:18 -0500 Phil Carns wrote: > > But as you can see strips is provided with a value: > > > > Name varstrip_dist > > Param strips > > Value 0:128K; 1:32K; > > Hi Andrew, > > I don't kno

Re: [Pvfs2-developers] Re: [Pvfs2-users] OrangeFS on nodes with different storage space capacities.

2012-03-07 Thread Andrew Savchenko
Hello, On Tue, 06 Mar 2012 09:42:18 -0500 Phil Carns wrote: > > But as you can see strips is provided with a value: > > > > Name varstrip_dist > > Param strips > > Value 0:128K; 1:32K; > > Hi Andrew, > > I don't know if this is your problem or

Re: [Pvfs2-developers] Re: [Pvfs2-users] OrangeFS on nodes with different storage space capacities.

2012-03-06 Thread Phil Carns
On 03/06/2012 12:20 AM, Andrew Savchenko wrote: Hello, On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:45:56 -0500 Becky Ligon wrote: Let us know how it goes. It goes not that well. For now I test on a double server setup on a single host (kernel 3.1.10). I can't get varstrip_dist to work at all. Due to some unknown

[Pvfs2-developers] Re: [Pvfs2-users] OrangeFS on nodes with different storage space capacities.

2012-03-05 Thread Andrew Savchenko
Hello, On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:45:56 -0500 Becky Ligon wrote: > Let us know how it goes. It goes not that well. For now I test on a double server setup on a single host (kernel 3.1.10). I can't get varstrip_dist to work at all. Due to some unknown issue Value of the Parameter varstrip_dist is not

[Pvfs2-developers] Re: [Pvfs2-users] OrangeFS on nodes with different storage space capacities.

2012-02-21 Thread Becky Ligon
Andrew: We have a distribution that should help you with your storage problem. Here is a link to a wiki that describes how to use it: http://www.orangefs.org/trac/orangefs/wiki/Distributions. In your case, I would add this distribution to your config file: Name varstrip_dist

[Pvfs2-developers] Re: [Pvfs2-users] OrangeFS on nodes with different storage space capacities.

2012-02-20 Thread Becky Ligon
Andrew: It is possible to use a different distribution (other than simple stripe) that will take advantage of servers with different space allocations. However, the code that performs this service hasn't been used in a very long time. My co-worker is going to look into it and see if this distribu