On Apr 25, 2007 11:13 -0400, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > On Wed, 2007-25-04 at 05:09 -0400, Shobhit Dayal wrote: > > I think I see the direction we need to head in. I guess there are no > > short term hacks to get multiple mds's up > > in our environment. What we were really interested in was > > demonstrating the dynamic redistribution concept > > with as little change to lustre as possible. But I guess what you are > > saying is that it may not be possible to do that. > > > > Its also helpfull to know the fid's approach you took for managing > > inode changes. > > > > Thanks for taking so much time out, and writing such detailed mails. > > when manage to bring up something, I'll let you know :) > > Did you see the announcement on this list this morning by Peter Braam > about the Lustre 2.0 code branch snapshot? > > That work contains the CMD (clustered metadata) code to which Andreas > has referred. > > Perhaps that is a good place for you start your work.
I was just going to say the same thing. Starting with the CMD code you can likely tune the MDT distribution algorithms (which AFAIK is your main goal) and we'd be happy to see any results you produce on different algorithms for this. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc. _______________________________________________ Lustre-devel mailing list [email protected] https://mail.clusterfs.com/mailman/listinfo/lustre-devel
