If you want to use SSD in an HA configuration you will want to put the SSDs in the arrays where you can provide failover so the host being failed to can see the SSDs.
We are starting design and evaluation work where in the future we will provide replication in the file system, but that is a ways off. -boyd On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Mi Zhou <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you Becky and everyone else on this thread for the info. Good to > know that it can make use of the SSD. > > Is that still doable in an HA cluster? I assume the metadata needs to be > seen on all the nodes in the HA cluster, so when one node fails, some > other node can jump in. If the metadata sits on a local SSD, is there a > way to have it replicated on other nodes? > > Thanks, > > Mi > > > > On Mon, 2011-12-19 at 12:49 -0600, Becky Ligon wrote: > > Yes. Are you using OrangeFS? If so, when you run pvfs2-genconfig, you > > will be given the option to put the data space in a different location > > than the meta data space. > > > > Becky > -- > > > > > Email Disclaimer: www.stjude.org/emaildisclaimer > > > _______________________________________________ > Pvfs2-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.beowulf-underground.org/mailman/listinfo/pvfs2-users >
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