[Lustre-discuss] How to change inode capacity

2009-01-30 Thread Ms. Megan Larko
Greetings Satoshi, I got more inodes by upgrading the size of the disk for the MDT. I backed up the original MDT using the procedure described in Lustre 1.6 Operations Manual (version 1.12 May 2008--not the most-recent, I know). After having backed up the original MDT I restored it to a larger

Re: [Lustre-discuss] How to change inode capacity

2009-01-30 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 11:58 +0900, Satoshi Isono wrote: Hi Brian, Hi. Current Lustre version is NOT able to multiple MDT. Is it right? This is correct. I found the article in Lustre FAQ. http://wiki.lustre.org/index.php?title=Lustre_FAQ * What is the maximum number of files in a

Re: [Lustre-discuss] How to change inode capacity

2009-01-30 Thread Oleg Drokin
Hello! On Jan 29, 2009, at 9:58 PM, Satoshi Isono wrote: http://wiki.lustre.org/index.php?title=Lustre_FAQ * What is the maximum number of files in a single file system? In a single directory? So, if we use current Lustre 1.6.x on EXT3, we can only support single MDT. Then, according

Re: [Lustre-discuss] How to change inode capacity

2009-01-29 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 13:32 +0900, Satoshi Isono wrote: Hi all, Do you know how to change the capacity of inode space? Sorry, you can't. Up-front planning is very important in this aspect of deploying Lustre. In the future, adding MDTs will increase inode capacity, but currently only a

Re: [Lustre-discuss] How to change inode capacity

2009-01-29 Thread Satoshi Isono
Hi Brian, Thank you for your reply. I inserted my comment into your lines. please refer it. At 09/01/30(金)04:36, Brian J. Murrell wrote: On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 13:32 +0900, Satoshi Isono wrote: Hi all, Do you know how to change the capacity of inode space? Sorry, you can't. Up-front