Kyle,

How is this patch useful for you guys? With a single server (and only one stripe), it doesn't matter what the factor and num_groups are, does it? It still behaves the same as simple-stripe in that case. With multiple servers setting the factor and num_groups to 1 does make the 2d distribution act like simple-stripe, but why not just use simple stripe in that case?

-sam


On Jul 1, 2008, at 3:19 PM, Kyle Schochenmaier wrote:

Patch is against cvs head, and modifies the default num_groups to be 1
and the group_strip_factor = 1  so twod-stripe's defaults still work
when you use it on a single-server, it will now by default behave the
same as simple-stripe until the user modifies the num_groups and
strip_factor xattrs.

Also added a brief description of the definitions for the dist_params
in twod-stripe.

Tested fully functional on my servers.

Kyle


Index: src/io/description/dist-twod-stripe.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /anoncvs/pvfs2/src/io/description/dist-twod-stripe.c,v
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -r1.5 dist-twod-stripe.c
6a7,15
/* twod-stripe will take all of the servers in the filesystem and
* partition them into num_groups groups. Data will then be striped to * each group before we move onto the next group. The strip_factor will
* determine how many chunks of strip_size are written to each server
* in each group before we transition to the next group.
* The striping on the group level is done round-robin in the same
* fashion as simple-stripe
*/



Index: include/pvfs2-dist-twod-stripe.h
===================================================================
RCS file: /anoncvs/pvfs2/include/pvfs2-dist-twod-stripe.h,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -r1.4 pvfs2-dist-twod-stripe.h
17c17
< #define PVFS_DIST_TWOD_STRIPE_DEFAULT_GROUPS 2
---
#define PVFS_DIST_TWOD_STRIPE_DEFAULT_GROUPS 1
19c19
< #define PVFS_DIST_TWOD_STRIPE_DEFAULT_FACTOR 256
---
#define PVFS_DIST_TWOD_STRIPE_DEFAULT_FACTOR 1


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Kyle Schochenmaier
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