[Lustre-discuss] lustre and small files overhead

[Balagopal Pillai]

Hi,

           I tried gfs and ocfs2 before i came back to Lustre as the 
choice for hpc cluster filesystem
and they were both quite good for small files. I wasn't happy with
the stability of either at the time and also didn't want to deal with 
the quorum issues when all
i wanted was a cluster file system and not the high availability part of 
the solution.

          gfs and ocfs2 are worth trying for benchmarks with small 
files. Please note that gfs2 is
not considered production ready. So you would need to stick with rhel4 
instead of rhel5 if sticking
with a redhat solution.


Regards
Balagopal


Joe Barjo wrote:
> Could it be tuned one day for small files?
> Which filesystem would you suggest for me?
> I already tried nfs, afs
> I will now try glusterfs
>
> Thanks for your support
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