[Lustre-discuss] Lustre drawback

[Aaron Knister]

I believe this is still the case. It may work but your mileage will  
vary.

On Dec 13, 2007, at 11:58 AM, Marco wrote:

> Hello everybody,
>
> at the following pages:
>
> http://www.rit.edu/~rc/docs/Survey_of_Clustered_Parallel_File_Systems_004_LANL.ppt
> http://www.intel.com/cd/ids/developer/asmo-na/eng/dc/tools/threading/238284.htm?page=2
>
> I read:
>
> "[...] Currently, one additional drawback to Lustre is that a Lustre
> client cannot be on a server that is providing OSTs. This solution is
> being worked on and may be available soon. [...]"
>
> Is that currently true? I mean, the client cannot be run on an OST
> server yet?
>
> Thank you,
> Marco
>
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Aaron Knister
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