On Fri, 3 Nov 2006, Andreas Dilger wrote:
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.
Maybe poor performance is what limits adoption of Lustre for transactional workloads: I heard some stories of users trying database-like access (ie. updates of many small files) on Lustre, with mixed or terrible results.
NFS gives much better results with small files, but it does not scale well, and it lacks good POSIX conformance (ie. wrt caching).
Too bad we don't have the best of both worlds! -- Jean-Marc Saffroy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.clusterfs.com/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
