[Lustre-discuss] size of OST

[Andreas Dilger]

On Aug 05, 2009  07:20 -0400, Mag Gam wrote:
> I know the largest possible OST is 8TB, but is that a recommended
> size? I wan to avoid maintaining many objects therefore I was thinking
> of creating 10x8TB OSTs on 10 OSS. Was wondering what kind of problems
> can arise.

There are many customers running with 8TB OSTs.  Depending on your
network bandwidth and RAM, you could consolidate the OSTs to fewer
OSS nodes to reduce the cost.

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