[Lustre-devel] "Simple" HSM straw man
Eric Barton
eeb at sun.com
Fri Oct 17 03:10:07 PDT 2008
Aurelien,
> >> I don't think we want to block the write just because the HSM
> >> copy isn't done yet. If the data is changing, then the policy
> >> engine shouldn't have started a copyout process in the first
> >> place.
> >
> > Indeed.
>
> You were speaking of a FS with only one big file and so we need to
> have a way to be sure it will be copied at least once, even if
> people are writting on it. In this case, with a classical policy
> engine, this file will never be copied out because data is
> constantly changing.
I'm not so sure that's a realistic case. If this file is so active
that it's impossible to take a consistent copy of it without some
sort of a snapshot facility, does that really mean it's a candidate
for archiving?
Cheers,
Eric
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