On Nov 01, 2006 10:27 -0800, Lin Shen (lshen) wrote: > Yes, the server will be running in the embedded environment as well.
With only tens of clients there shouldn't be a problem with 512MB of RAM. > A few more things to clarify: > > 1. The definition of a client. Is it one client per OS instance? Correct. > 2. In our system, there will potentially be a wide range of storage > media such as disk array, hard disk, flash and USB devices and we want > to share all of them. Is it feasible and I'm having a hard time to > picture sharing among those devices with very different performance > capability and reliability. This isn't really what Lustre was designed to do. It currently assumes a uniform IO performance (and with 1.4 it also is best to have the same size devices). That isn't to say you cannot have Lustre running on different block devices, but rather (a) it isn't very efficient to use on small devices because of overhead, and (b) to aggregate all of these devices into a single filesystem wouldn't work very well. > 3. We also want the system to share database. Is this related to CFS? You should be able to run a database on top of Lustre, but this is not a common mode of operation for our current customers and I don't know how well it functions. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc. _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.clusterfs.com/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
