[Lustre-discuss] Lustre as a reliable f/s for an archive datacentre

Kevin Fox Kevin.Fox at pnl.gov
Wed Apr 8 13:31:07 PDT 2009


A lot of sites pair OSS's with fibre channel. If an OSS fails, the OST
it served is then served by its buddy.

Kevin

On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 10:11 -0700, Aaron Porter wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 9:54 PM, John Ouellette
> <john.ouellette at nrc-cnrc.gc.ca> wrote:
> > Although we do have a requirement for high throughput (although not
> to
> > really support 1000s of clients: more likely a few dozen nodes), our
> > primary concerns are reliability and data integrity.  From reading
> the
> > docs, it looks as though Lustre can be made to be very reliable, but
> how
> > about data integrity?
> 
> Also -- are there configurations that can provide data availability
> across single or multiple OST failures?
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