Hi Jeffrey, Thanks for your e-mail. Then extra traffic is moving from gridftp servers to OSSs, which I really don't like---as you may imagine.
I know a product called dCache. The gridftp servers don't handle the data traffic directly, but re-directing the data to the data server(dCache pools). Regards, Yujun On Fri, 22 May 2009, Jeffrey Bennett wrote: > The gridftp servers need to be on lustre clients. No way you can send your > data directly from the gridftp client to the OSS if this is what you're > asking. > > jab > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] > > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Yujun Wu > > Sent: Friday, May 22, 2009 8:24 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [Lustre-discuss] gridftp and Lustre > > > > Hello, > > > > Could somebody give me some advice on how to improve the > > gridftp performance with Lustre? > > > > Currently, we are putting files onto Lustre through Lustre > > file system mounted gridftp server. I noticed the network > > traffic goes in this way (use putting data as an example): > > > > remote client---->gridftp server--->Lustre OSS > > > > And the gridftp server is busy with receiving and sending > > packets all the time. Is there a way for the control info > > goes to gridftp server, but the data go to Lustre OSS directly? > > > > Thanks in advance for answering my question. > > > > > > Regards, > > Yujun > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Lustre-discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss > > _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
