[Lustre-discuss] autofs lustre

[Andreas Dilger]

On Sep 23, 2008  14:26 +0200, Papp Tamas wrote:
> Andreas Dilger wrote:
>> Might I ask why you have 40 Lustre filesystems?  One of the benefits of
>> Lustre is that you can have a single filesystem across many servers
>> (unlike NFS) and the value of the single aggregate filesystem is more
>> than the sum of its parts.
>>
>> The bandwidth available to the clients is higher, the space can be
>> shared more effectively, etc.
>
> How do you make it mandatory, which user or client can see only a  
> specific part of the cluster?

You can of course use UID/GID to restrict access to the filesystem, but
it currently depends on trusting the client nodes.  You can also use
quotas to limit space usage by particular users.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.