On Sep 23, 2008 14:26 +0200, Papp Tamas wrote: > Andreas Dilger wrote: >> Might I ask why you have 40 Lustre filesystems? One of the benefits of >> Lustre is that you can have a single filesystem across many servers >> (unlike NFS) and the value of the single aggregate filesystem is more >> than the sum of its parts. >> >> The bandwidth available to the clients is higher, the space can be >> shared more effectively, etc. > > How do you make it mandatory, which user or client can see only a > specific part of the cluster?
You can of course use UID/GID to restrict access to the filesystem, but it currently depends on trusting the client nodes. You can also use quotas to limit space usage by particular users. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc. _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
