Will LAID be available by end of 2007? If not, how hard is it to add only RAID 0 and 1 across nodes?
Thanks lin > -----Original Message----- > From: Andreas Dilger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 11:41 PM > To: Lin Shen (lshen) > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Lustre-discuss] Software RAID support > > On Dec 05, 2006 16:58 -0800, Lin Shen (lshen) wrote: > > The FAQ says that Lustre supports software RAID. Is the > software RAID > > cluster aware? Can I put two partitions from two different > nodes into > > the same RAID set? > > No. The cluster-aware RAID feature (Lustre RAID = LAID) is > only in the planning stages. > > This is only indicating that Lustre can use MD RAID{0,1,5} > devices for a back-end OST or MDT filesystem. That said, > there was a bug just found with Lustre OSTs and software RAID > 5 (bug 11313) if you are planning on using software RAID 5 > you need a patch. > > 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
