Guy Coates wrote: > Jason Williams wrote: > >> Hi >> I have been playing around with lustre 1.6.5.1 as part of some testing >> that we are doing for an up and coming cluster. I installed it on 2 >> test machines, Dell 2950's with 8 GB of ram to be exact, and fired up a >> test file system. >> The test file system was very simple: >> >> /dev/sdb - ~400GB for the MDT/MGS >> /dev/sdc - ~4TB for the OST >> >> > > Quick questions; did you mount the filesystem on the OST/MDS machine, or on a > separate client? Mounting filesystems on OST/MDS nodes is not supported. > > Does it work with an OST disk < 2TB? support for disks > 2TB is patchy > depending on your exact disk controller hardware. > > Cheers, > > Guy > > Hi Guy
Hmm, yes the file system is mounting on the OST/MDS node. Lustre 1.4 seemed to not really have any issue with that. I wonder why it's not supported. And thanks for the heads up on the > 2TB support. Looks like I get to go back to my boss and have a discussion about alternatives.... -- Jason _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
