[Lustre-discuss] is Luster ready for prime time?

[Jeff Johnson]

Greg,

I'm echoing Charles' comments a bit. Specific filesystems are not good 
at everything. While it is my opinion that Lustre can be very stable, 
and like Colin stated the underlying hardware and configuration is 
crucial to that end, the filesystem may not be the best performing at 
every data access model.

Like every other filesystem Lustre has use cases where it excels and 
others where overhead may be less than optimal. Other filesystems and 
storage devices also suffer from "one size fits most".

Many here would likely be biased toward Lustre but many of those people 
have also used many other options on the market and ended up here.

--Jeff

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On 1/17/13 9:17 AM, greg whynott wrote:
> Hello,
>
> just signed up today, please forgive me if this question has been 
> covered recently.  - in a bit of a rush to get an answer on this as we 
> need to make a decision soon,  the idea of using luster was thrown 
> into the mix very late in the decision making process.
>
>
> We are looking to procure a new storage solution which will 
> predominately be used for HPC output but will also be used as our main 
> business centric storage for day to day use. Meaning the file system 
> needs to be available 24/7/365. The last time I was involved in 
> considering Luster was about 6 years ago and it was at that time being 
> considered for scratch space for HPC usage only.
>
> Our VMs and databases would remain on non-luster storage as we already 
> have that in place and it works well.    The luster file system 
> potentially would have everything else.  Projects we work on typically 
> take up to 2 years to complete and during that time we would want all 
> assets to remain on the file system.
>
> Some of the vendors on our short list include HDS(Blue Arc), Isilon 
> and NetApp.    Last week we started bouncing the idea of using Luster 
> around.   I'd love to use it if it is considered stable enough to do so.
>
> your thoughts and/or comments would be greatly appreciated. thanks for 
> your time.
>
> greg
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