Re: [lustre-discuss] Using Lustre for distributed build use case -- Performance tuning suggestions

Unless you have huge directories, you may not see any improvement from DNE, and it may hurt performance because striped directories have more overhead when they are first created. DNE is mostly useful when a single MDS is overloaded by many clients, but with the small IO workload here that may

Re: [lustre-discuss] Using Lustre

On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 1:20 PM, E.S. Rosenberg wrote: > These are very general questions that *should* be addressed in generally > available documentation but I may be wrong but I think they are. > > Either way to the best of my knowledge Lustre is currently only

Re: [lustre-discuss] Using Lustre

These are very general questions that *should* be addressed in generally available documentation but I may be wrong but I think they are. Either way to the best of my knowledge Lustre is currently only supported on Linux, the officially supported distributions are RHEL and its' derivatives. We

Re: [lustre-discuss] Using Lustre

Hi, The minimum number of nodes required to setup a fully functional lustre file system is 1. Lustre itself is designed to run across hundreds / thousands of nodes, so your scale will depend on your project and hardware arability. The most basic setup you can get away with is simply to install

Re: [lustre-discuss] Using lustre as a filesystem to boot from

There was a presentation at LUG from ANU about using Lustre as a root filesystem: http://opensfs.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/830-900_Robin_Humble_rjh.lug2011.pdf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpnYkx69QSc Based on a presentation given earlier this year I believe that they are still using