[Lustre-discuss] ioDrive from Fusion-IO as an MDT?

[Klaus Steden]

Hi Craig,

Assuming it presents itself as a regular LUN to the OS, I don't think it
would appear to operate any differently than a physical drive. I've always
been extremely curious to try solid-state disks in a high-performance
environment, so if anyone's used one of these, I'm dying to hear how it
worked for you.

cheers,
Klaus

On 8/8/08 9:31 AM, "Craig Prescott" <prescott at hpc.ufl.edu>did etch on stone
tablets:

> 
> Hi all;
> 
> Has anyone ever tried using a Fusion-IO ioDrive as
> a Lustre MDT?
> 
> http://www.fusionio.com/products.aspx
> 
> If so, I'd love to hear your experiences, particularly
> if you've used one in a production filesystem.  We're using
> a mirrored pair of SATA disks at present for our MDTs,
> and interactive response can get pretty crummy when
> our users perform metadata-heavy workloads.  It seems
> this product could help us out in that area.
> 
> Thanks,
> Craig Prescott
> UF HPC Center
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