[Lustre-discuss] Failover Setup MDS/MDT

[Brian J. Murrell]

On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 14:29 +0200, Heiko Schroeter wrote:
> 
> Well yes ok, but what about the sizes of the partitions ?
> 
> The docs present an example calculating the inode space needed on an 'MDS'.
> (3.2.2 Calculating MDS Size)

That should technically be "MDT Size", not MDS size.

> So when the MDS partitions 

AKA MDTs.

> holds the inodes of the lustre system what will be 
> the partition size of the MDT device ?

You are talking about two things that are in fact one and the same.  The
"MDS partition" is the MDT.

> Or should it read 'MDT' partition size in the docs and the MDS partition size 
> doesn't matter at all ?

Indeed.  Can you file a bugzilla ticket regarding that that bad use of
MDS?  I will see that it gets to the documentation team.

Thanx,
b.

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