My personal opinion would be to create a partition. I'm not sure for the exact logistical reasons but there are some good ones (I just can't recall them).

-Aaron

On Oct 17, 2007, at 3:35 PM, Brock Palen wrote:

We are doing some testing,

For a OST with a xserve raid connected to linux,  is it better to not
have a partition table

mkfs.lustre /dev/sda

or to have a partition?
fdisk /dev/sda
mkfs.lustre /dev/sda1

Thank you :-)

Brock Palen
Center for Advanced Computing
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