On Apr 06, 2009 15:27 -0400, Christopher Deneen wrote: > A quick note on my setup, 40 oss's each with a md0 raid1 (The OST) > (2x500gb) (amd x2 5400 8gb ddr2) and a single mdt/mgs/mds (dual xeon > quad core 32gb ddr2 4tb raid6).
There is no benefit at all to have such a large MDT filesystem, and in fact using RAID6 will make metadata performance very bad. You should instead make this a RAID 1+0 with 4 or whatever drives you have. 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
