[Lustre-discuss] striping files to different OSTs

[Sebastian Reitenbach]

Hi,
On Friday 29 January 2010 08:34:50 am Sebastian Reitenbach wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am new to lustre, just did a test setup with a MGS/MGS and two OST
> servers. I run lustre 1.8.1 on SLES 11 x86_64.
> reading chapter 1.4.1 of the Lustre manual, I see that files should get
> striped to different OSTs, and that files can become larger than the size
> of one OST.
>
> However, when I use dd if=/dev/zero of=outfile.img then I get an error
> dd: writing `outfile.img': No space left on device
> after the first OST is full, the second one is still empty, see below:
>
Answering myself here: After being pointed to the right direction, I found 
reading chapter 24 regarding file striping, very informative.

cheers
Sebastian