[Lustre-discuss] max file size on lustre - No space left on device after 37GB!
Brian J. Murrell
Brian.Murrell at Sun.COM
Wed Oct 29 03:46:21 PDT 2008
On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 11:49 +0200, Alex wrote:
> Hello,
Hi,
> Reading Lustre Manual (section 33. System Limits) i could not find an answer
> to my problem.
>
> I am tring to create a 50GB testfile on my lustre file system using dd. After
> 37GB (which is the max size of one of my OST), dd is stopping complaining
> about FREE SPACE!!!
> list again free space usage:
>
> [root at rs1 ~]# lfs df -h
> UUID bytes Used Available Use% Mounted on
> testfs-MDT0000_UUID 130.4G 460.0M 122.5G 0% /mnt/lustre[MDT:0]
> testfs-OST0000_UUID 18.3G 1.4G 16.0G 7% /mnt/lustre[OST:0]
> testfs-OST0001_UUID 18.3G 444.5M 17.0G 2% /mnt/lustre[OST:1]
> testfs-OST0002_UUID 36.7G 34.8G 4.0M 94% /mnt/lustre[OST:2]
> testfs-OST0003_UUID 36.7G 448.5M 34.4G 1% /mnt/lustre[OST:3]
> filesystem summary: 110.0G 37.1G 67.4G 33% /mnt/lustre
> [root at rs1 ~]#
>
> As you see, testfs-OST0002_UUID is full,
Yes. That's why you got the -ENOSPC
> but on /mnt/lustre I have enough free
> space - 67GB (on other OSTs) in order to allow dd to continue and create my
> file. How can i avoid dd to stop and allow it to continue to complete on
> other OSTs?
You need to investigate striping. Lustre's default striping policy is
1, which is no striping.
b.
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