[Lustre-discuss] programmatic access to parameters

[Andreas Dilger]

On 2010-03-25, at 15:12, Andreas Dilger wrote:
>> The llapi_* functions are great, I see how to set the stripe count
>> and size. I wasn't sure if there was also a function to query about
>> the configuration, eg number of OST's deployed?
>
> There isn't directly such a function, but indirectly this is possible
> to get from userspace without changing Lustre or the liblustreapi
> library:


I filed bug 22472 for this issue, with a proposed patch, though the  
actual implementation may change before this is included into any  
release.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.