Nono - striping should only be used to get more bandwidth from servers. The correct solution to the problem you point out is a lock conversion, planned long ago, still far away maybe (Nikita?).
Peter On 5/9/08 8:25 AM, "Brian J. Murrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 22:55 -0600, Peter Braam wrote: >> >> His use pattern was interesting a number of Windows clients must be >> browsing files stored in Lustre in this remote location. It was >> expected that the files would be fairly large, would be viewed by >> multiple clients, and that few or no modifications would be made. > > Even still it's useful during implementation to think of the use case of > that remote client having read a file and caching and holding a read > lock on that file, say 1GB in size, and then another client wanting to > update say, 1KB in the middle of the file. It would be beneficial for > that 1GB file to have a small (but still practical) stripe size so that > the amount of cache that needs to be thrown away to accommodate the > write is relatively small. > > b. > > _______________________________________________ > Lustre-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-devel _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list Lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss