> > 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. > How hard would it be to make Lustre to work reasonably well with hybrid storage media? Are you aware of any other Open Source or Commerical CFS that does this? Thanks lin _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.clusterfs.com/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
