So can I conclude that lustre only provides object level locking and not block level locking. Secondly, will it be incorrect to say that object can scale anywhere from a block upto the full file.
On 8/9/07, Anand Bisen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From a file system level lustre is not aware of any blocks, it just deals > at object level ! So no there is no block level locking. > On second question it depends how big your block can be, realistically no > because the object has to be in a size that is a multiple of (few kilobytes > i think 64k i am not sure about the number). > > On Aug 9, 2007, at 10:07 AM, rishi pathak wrote: > > Two more question: > Does lustre support block level locking also? > Can the objects on OST be as small as a single block > > On 8/9/07, Anand Bisen < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > On Aug 9, 2007, at 9:24 AM, rishi pathak wrote: > > > > > I have got few questions: > > > 1. Does lustre support block level striping. > > Lustre supports object level striping across OST's, each OST could > > consist of a RAID device that would in turn do the block level > > striping across multiple disks. > > > > > > > > > > 2.Can the objects on OST be blocks > > Since generally the devices used to store the data are block level > > devices (and not object disks) the objects on OST are at the lowest > > level stored as blocks. > > > > Regards-- Rishi Pathak
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