Re: [lustre-discuss] Lustre as /home directory

2018-03-01 Thread Laifer, Roland (SCC)
e > wrong thing even after education. > > Tim > > -Original Message- > From: lustre-discuss [mailto:lustre-discuss-boun...@lists.lustre.org] On > Behalf Of Steve Barnet > Sent: Friday, February 16, 2018 7:21 AM > To: lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org > Subj

Re: [lustre-discuss] Lustre as /home directory

2018-02-16 Thread Carlson, Timothy S
g] On Behalf Of Steve Barnet Sent: Friday, February 16, 2018 7:21 AM To: lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org Subject: Re: [lustre-discuss] Lustre as /home directory On 2/16/18 8:53 AM, Michael Watters wrote: > Can't be much worse than NFS. Oh yes, it can! It will really depend upon how your users

Re: [lustre-discuss] Lustre as /home directory

2018-02-16 Thread Steve Barnet
On 2/16/18 8:53 AM, Michael Watters wrote: Can't be much worse than NFS. Oh yes, it can! It will really depend upon how your users work with it. If you regularly have many people building their software chains, that can drag your interactive response to its knees very quickly. If your users al

Re: [lustre-discuss] Lustre as /home directory

2018-02-16 Thread Michael Watters
Can't be much worse than NFS. On 02/15/2018 10:30 AM, Mark Hahn wrote: >> My question is, Is it advisable to have /home in Lustre since users data >> will be of small files (less than 5MB)? > > certainly it works, but is not very pleasant for metadata-intensive > activity, such as compiling. > __

Re: [lustre-discuss] Lustre as /home directory

2018-02-15 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
What will your backup/snapshot strategy going to be and how will you implement it? On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 5:30 PM, Mark Hahn wrote: > My question is, Is it advisable to have /home in Lustre since users data >> will be of small files (less than 5MB)? >> > > certainly it works, but is not very pl

Re: [lustre-discuss] Lustre as /home directory

2018-02-15 Thread Mark Hahn
My question is, Is it advisable to have /home in Lustre since users data will be of small files (less than 5MB)? certainly it works, but is not very pleasant for metadata-intensive activity, such as compiling. ___ lustre-discuss mailing list lustre-d

Re: [lustre-discuss] Lustre as /home directory

2018-02-14 Thread Martin BALVERS
Hi, I don't know if the experts think it is advisable or not, but it does work. I have been using /home on Lustre for years now, and not encountered any problems. gr, Martin From: "Ravi Konila" To: "Lustre Discuss" Date: 15-02-2018 08:25 Subject:[lustre-discuss] Lustre as