On 2010-06-21, at 12:47, Roger Spellman wrote:
> With 3T disks coming out soon, can anyone tell me what is involved with 
> creating an OST that is bigger than 16T (on the 1.8.x branch)?  

The first step is to get the latest e2fsprogs from Git, which has alpha support 
for > 2^32 block filesystems, then port the lustre patches to same.

If you specify the "force_over_16tb" mount option to ext4-based ldiskfs, then 
you can begin TESTING the support for > 16TB OSTs.  We haven't yet begun 
testing this ourselves, so feedback is welcome.

> Will Lustre support 32T or 64T LUNs any time soon?

That's hard to say, but starting testing on it will definitely speed up the 
process.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Lustre Technical Lead
Oracle Corporation Canada Inc.

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