[Lustre-discuss] Future of LusterFS?

[Janne Aho]

Thought I would say thanks for all the input you have given and I'm 
sorry for misspelling of LustreFS.

As we are completely green when it comes to any form of cluster file 
systems and we have to concider all the facts before we definitely know 
what we should do and how much time we have to calculate to build up a 
system, so that we can see if we can manage it "by ourselves" of if we 
would need to get in external help.

Do you dare to estimate how long it would take to setup and tune a 
system with offers 40T storage. The main purpose is to use the storage 
to store VM-images which are used by KVM. Lest us assume that we use 
hardware RAID6. Today there will be ~20 clients using the storage.

I know it's a really difficult question to answer, specially when not 
saying how many machines there will be and so on (frankly we don't know 
how it will be in the end), but I'm not really looking for how many 
minutes it will take, more roughly if it will be something that may take 
some days or quite many weeks or months...


Thanks in advance for any replays.

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