[Lustre-devel] LustreFS performance
Jeff Darcy
jeffd at sicortex.com
Wed Mar 4 09:28:08 PST 2009
Oleg Drokin wrote:
> On Mar 2, 2009, at 3:45 PM, Andreas Dilger wrote:
>
>
>> On Mar 02, 2009 20:04 +0300, Vitaly Fertman wrote:
>>
>>> RAM: enough to have a tmpfs for MDS;
>>>
>> Note that strictly speaking we need to use ldiskfs on a ramdisk, not
>> tmpfs, because we don't have an fsfilt_tmpfs.
>>
>
> The idea was loop device on tmpfs, I think.
>
FYI, this is exactly what we do with our FabriCache feature - i.e. both
MDT and OSTs are actually loopback files on tmpfs. Modulo a few issues
with preallocated write space eating all storage leaving none for actual
data, it works rather well producing high performance numbers and giving
LNDs a good workout. BTW, the loopback driver does copies and is
disturbingly single-threaded, which can create a bottleneck. This can
be worked around with multiple instances per node, though.
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