[Lustre-discuss] Future of LusterFS?

[Stuart Midgley]

At most a day.  Most of that day will be inserting the DVD's with Centos into the machines and installing :)

The mkfs and mount of lustre will take a total of about an hour.


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Dr Stuart Midgley
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On 28/04/2010, at 21:03 , Janne Aho wrote:

> 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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