Lin Shen (lshen) wrote:
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From: Andreas Dilger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 9:03 AM
To: Lin Shen (lshen)
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Lustre-discuss] disk space needed to run MDS

On Feb 02, 2007  10:25 -0800, Lin Shen (lshen) wrote:
Could you explain a bit more how the number 400M was decided? Ext3 itself won't need that much disk space, right? Also, is this number related to the total capacity of the Luster filesystem? In other words, will the MDS always need 400M to work properly for a
filesystem
of size 1T or just 1G? By switching to a different underline filesystem (i.e., from ext3 to ext2), can this number be lowered?
In fact you do NOT need the full 400MB of journal space, and lconf will not create a journal that large if you have a smaller filesystem.

With 1.6beta, I guess the journal is created by mkfs.lustre --mdt. How
does it know the size of the file system?

mkfs.lustre uses the BLKGETSIZE64 ioctl for the disk size.

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