thanks for ur reply now i tried to add a big file (about 12 GB) on one of the clients, i use 2 OSTs each of size 10 GB, but unfortunately, when i copied the big file to the client , it gave me cp: writing `/mnt/testfs/est_othersplitaa': No space left on device and it copied only 8,325116 GB
any help thanks in advance --- Andreas Dilger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 13, 2007 00:47 -0700, Heba Farouk wrote: > > --- Andreas Dilger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mar 12, 2007 00:37 -0700, Heba Farouk wrote: > > > > 1. for a certain OST, can we divide it > between > > > clients with access rights? > > > > > > Do you mean limiting usage of the space to some > > > clients and not others, > > > then no. If you mean "can multiple clients use > > > space on the same OST" > > > then the answer is yes. > > > > but may i divide the space to areas, i.e. if i > have a > > space of 4 OSTs, may i divide it to 3 areas > > No, there is currently no way to partition > individual OSTs. If you > want to do that you would need to have multiple > Lustre filesystems. > You can export multiple OST targets from the same > OSS, and there is > no problem if these OSTs are used by different > filesystems, so long > as they are only ever used by one filesystem. > > Cheers, Andreas > -- > Andreas Dilger > Principal Software Engineer > Cluster File Systems, Inc. > > Yours Heba ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss an email again! Yahoo! Toolbar alerts you the instant new Mail arrives. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/ _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.clusterfs.com/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
