[Lustre-discuss] "Setstripe count -1" what's the happen when one of the osts outs of space disk?

[Andreas Dilger]

On 2010-04-05, at 02:43, Đào Thị Thảo wrote:
> I'm using lustre 1.8.0 on Centos 5.0.
> I have a question as follows: I setstripe file for all osts with  
> parameter count -1, what's the happen when one of the osts outs of  
> space disk?


If you specify stripe_count=-1 it will stripe across all "available"  
OSTs, which should skip the full OST.  If you specify stripe_count=N,  
where N = number of OSTs (including the full one) then the allocation  
will fail.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Principal Engineer, Lustre Group
Oracle Corporation Canada Inc.