[Lustre-discuss] max file size on lustre - No space left on device after 37GB!

[Alex]

On Wednesday 29 October 2008 13:07, Alex wrote:
> > > 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.
>
> Hi Brian,
>
> Thanks for your reply. How can i change "Lustre default striping policy"?
> On http://manual.lustre.org/manual/LustreManual16_HTML/index.html i cannot
> find the answer.
>

I found the answer ... googling. http://manual.lustre.org is a crap!
[root at rs1 ~]# lfs setstripe -c -1 /mnt/lustre/ (spread across all available 
OST's)

Regards,
Alx