[Lustre-discuss] xserve raid

[Aaron Knister]

My personal opinion would be to create a partition. I'm not sure for  
the exact logistical reasons but there are some good ones (I just  
can't recall them).

-Aaron

On Oct 17, 2007, at 3:35 PM, Brock Palen wrote:

> We are doing some testing,
>
> For a OST with a xserve raid connected to linux,  is it better to not
> have a partition table
>
> mkfs.lustre /dev/sda
>
> or to have a partition?
> fdisk /dev/sda
> mkfs.lustre /dev/sda1
>
> Thank you :-)
>
> Brock Palen
> Center for Advanced Computing
> brockp at umich.edu
> (734)936-1985
>
>
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Aaron Knister
Associate Systems Administrator/Web Designer
Center for Research on Environment and Water

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