David Noriega wrote: > Ok, so I could do > mount --bind /lustre/home /home > mount --bind /lustre/groups /groups > > Is this a generally accepted practice with Lustre? This just seems so > much like a nifty trick, but if its what the community uses, then ok. > It is a pretty nifty trick. Same file system, so the same quotas (if any) would apply to both directories.
> But ultimately if I wanted two separate filesystems, I would need more > hardware? An OST can't be put into a general 'pool' for use between > the two? > You probably don't need more hardware, but you would have to decide which file system each OST would serve -- it can only provide space to one file system. So some of your OSTs would be for home and some for groups. You would need to have 2 MDTs (if necessary, you could split/partition the MDT you have). Kevin > David > > On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Kevin Van Maren > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> David Noriega wrote: >> >>> OK hooray! Lustre setup with failover of all nodes, but now we have >>> this huge lustre mount point. How can I say create /lustre/home and >>> /lustre/groups and mount on the client? >>> >>> David >>> >>> >> Two choices: >> >> 1) create two Lustre file systems (separate MDT and OSTs for each) >> 2) use "mount --bind" on the client to make one filesystem's directories >> show up in different places >> >> >> > > > > _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
