Hi Daniel, Daniel Leaberry wrote: > You can stripe but with files so small you'll see no benefit. You > really don't want to stripe unless you have to. One thing to watch is > your metadata inodes with that many files so small. 2TB of disk can > store 2 billion inodes. That means a max of 2 billion files. Since 8TB > is the max disk size supported by most distros you're limited to 8 > billion files in one lustre filesystem. Then you have to start another > filesystem. Thanks for the reply, but I'm not sure I understand correctly. Are you telling me that the size of the total lustre filesystem is limited by the size of the MDS storage filesystem? Meaning that in order to store 8 billion files in a lustre filesystem I would need an 8Tb MDS filesystem ?
Or am I reading your answer completely the wrong way ? Is this limitation over all versions or tied to a specific lustre version (aka is this true for 1.6 as well ) Regards, Ramon _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.clusterfs.com/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
