[Lustre-discuss] duplicate

Papp Tamas tompos at martos.bme.hu
Fri Jul 4 08:27:35 PDT 2008


Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 16:34 +0200, Papp Tamás wrote:
>   
>> hi all,
>>
>> Is it possible to duplicate  some files or files in a directory on 
>> nodes, or something like that?
>>
>>
>> So if I write a file make it available on node1 and node2, if node1 is 
>> died, I can find it on node2.
>>     
>
> Your question is not making much sense to me.  Let me say that Lustre is
> a distributed filesystem.  All files are available to all (client)
> nodes.
>   

I'd like this from 
http://osdir.com/ml/file-systems.lustre.user/2007-12/msg00010.html:

>/> Is it possible to configure Lustre to write Objects to more than 1 node /
>/> simultaneously such that I am guaranteed that if one node goes down that /
>/> all files are still accessible?/
>/ That's called RAID, and right now, no.  It's on the roadmap though./


Is it available already. Can I check the roadmap somewhere? On clusterfs.com it was accessible easily, but on sun.com I don't find it.

Thank you,

tamas




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