[Lustre-discuss] Several LOV on th same MDT

[cliff white]

Evgeny Altunin wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I have several storage for OST of different size, reliability and 
> performance. The idea is to group them in different LOV on the same MDT.
> 
> The questions are:
> 1. Is that the right/working way of doing this?

That's one way of doing it. Whether it's the right way depends on what 
you want to do with the storage. You must have a separate MDT partition 
for each LOV.

> 2. Can I mount more then one LOV on one client?
Certainly.
> 
> I could also group them into number of directories with different stripe 
> start and count settings. Let's say /lfs/dir1 has stripes on OSTs 0-3, 
> /lfs/dir2  on OSTs 4-7, and os on. But I couldn't add new OSTs to 
> /lfs/dir1 in that case.
True
cliffw

> 
> Thanks,
> Evgeny
> 
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