[Lustre-discuss] commodity OSTs

[Brian J. Murrell]

On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 10:05 -0400, sethpn at gmail.com wrote:
> What is an example of a commodity OST?

And OST is a storage target, a.k.a. a block device in a Linux system.
Given that, you probably won't get any more "commodity" than, say, a
SATA disk.

> I feel that OSTs can only be
> NAS's.  Am I correct?

No.  NASes specifically cannot be OSTs.  NASes are formatted, shared out
filesystems.  Lustre OSTs must be unformatted block devices.

b.

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