This sounds elegant, but is it persistent? If not, what is the more reigorous method? Mike
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andreas Dilger Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2008 12:23 AM To: Mike Feuerstein Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Lustre-discuss] How to change default stripe count On Sep 26, 2008 16:41 -0500, Mike Feuerstein wrote: > I suspect that tunefs.lustre is used to change the stripe count for an > existing file system > > from Lustre default to some other value, but I'm not sure if I do this > at the MDT or on each OST device. > > tunefs.lustre -fsname=[NAME] param lov.stripe_count=4 ?? A much easier method with newer filesystems is to just set the striping on the root directory like "lfs setstripe -c 4 /mnt/lustre" and that will internally generate the above command and set the default striping. 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
