[Lustre-discuss] Random OST Numbers chosen in a stripe
Atul Vidwansa
avidwansa at ddn.com
Mon Aug 1 01:08:20 PDT 2011
Try specifying start OST to setstripe command. Look at lfs manpage.
Cheers,
_Atul
-----Original Message-----
From: Roger Spellman [mailto:Roger.Spellman at terascala.com]
Sent: Saturday, 30 July 2011 2:19 AM
To: lustre-discuss at lists.lustre.org; wc-discuss at whamcloud.com
Subject: [wc-discuss] Random OST Numbers chosen in a stripe
Suppose that I stripe a directory with the following command:
lfs setstripe -c 4 .
On some of my systems, when I create file in the directory, the list of OSTs for a particular file is sequential, e.g.
obdidx objid objid group
12 2 0x2 0
13 2 0x2 0
14 2 0x2 0
15 2 0x2 0
On another one of my systems, when I create files in a similarly striped directory, I get seemingly random assignment, e.g.
For one file:
obdidx objid objid group
14 6884 0x1ae4 0
46 6880 0x1ae0 0
8 6883 0x1ae3 0
29 6880 0x1ae0 0
For a different file:
obdidx objid objid group
13 6884 0x1ae4 0
28 6880 0x1ae0 0
44 6880 0x1ae0 0
27 6880 0x1ae0 0
Why is this?
How can I control it to always be sequential?
Thanks.
Roger Spellman
Staff Engineer
Terascala, Inc.
508-588-1501
www.terascala.com <http://www.terascala.com/>
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