Roger: I am consulting with our hardware experts to see what they suggest. Could you tell me more about your storage configuration?
Becky On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Moye,Roger V <[email protected]> wrote: > We are considering deployment of PVFS for our cluster. We are going to > have multiple PVFS I/O nodes, each with about 50TB of storage.**** > > ** ** > > This poses a problem in that e2fsprogs (RHEL 6) currently can not make a > filesystem larger than 16TB. I know that there’s a newer e2fsprogs > available but it’s not in RHEL 6 and we are trying to stay supportable by > Redhat rather than manually applying updates.**** > > ** ** > > If we build multiple 16TB filesystems on each I/O node, is there a way to > make a single PVFS server instance use all of the filesystems on the node? > Or do we need to run multiple server instances on each I/O node, one for > each 16TB partition?**** > > ** ** > > Any comments on this or best practices for handling > 16TB filesystems via > PVFS would be appreciated.**** > > ** ** > > -Roger Moye**** > > ** ** > > -----------------------------------------------------------**** > > Roger V. Moye**** > > Systems Analyst III**** > > University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center**** > > Division of Quantitative Sciences**** > > FCT4.6109**** > > Houston, Texas**** > > -----------------------------------------------------------**** > > ** ** > > _______________________________________________ > Pvfs2-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.beowulf-underground.org/mailman/listinfo/pvfs2-users > > -- Becky Ligon OrangeFS Support and Development Omnibond Systems Anderson, South Carolina
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