[Lustre-discuss] Reply High difference in I/O network traffic in lustre client

Lex lexluthor87 at gmail.com
Tue Feb 2 01:15:16 PST 2010


That was my mistake, i know the disadvantage / advantage  of using stripe or
not, but ...it was that. I am finding the way to re-arrange our small files
and soft links. Do you have any hint ?

> If you are using small files, you shouldn't be striping your files over
> multiple OSTs.  That is increasing the workload on the OSTs (size, lock
> overhead) without providing any benefits because the data is only stored on
> the first OST (assuming 1MB stripe size, and file size <= 1MB).


And, what about the difference in I/O network traffic, do you have any guide
?
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