[Lustre-discuss] explanation about inodes in MDT/OST

[Lee, Brett]

Eli,

We probably should clarify the context of inodes:

1) Each OST has "inodes" - these inodes refer to objects on that OST that contain block data for a Lustre file.
2) Each (as of 2.4) MDT has "inodes" - these inodes contain metadata for a single Lustre file.

When adding an OST you gain the inodes on that OST for objects (block data) on that OST, but the total amount of Lustre files (MDT inodes) hasn't changed.

--
Brett Lee
Sr. Systems Engineer
Intel High Performance Data Division

From: lustre-discuss-bounces at lists.lustre.org [mailto:lustre-discuss-bounces at lists.lustre.org] On Behalf Of Parinay Kondekar
Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 8:23 AM
To: E.S. Rosenberg
Cc: lustre-discuss at lists.lustre.org
Subject: Re: [Lustre-discuss] explanation about inodes in MDT/OST

IMO there are two limiting factors

1. total number of inodes supported by MDT and
2.  OSTs  i.e. num_ost_inodes = 4 * number_of_mds_inodes * default_stripe_count / number_of_osts

so your Q
I am not sure I understand this 100%, when adding an OST I do or don't
gain inodes?or you basically only get more inodes in the data part of
the filesystem but if you don't have enough inodes on the MDT you
still have a problem?
A
Yes, if there are no enough inodes on MDT adding OSTs wont help much.

I don't think you can change no. of inodes w/o formatting. You might want to take a look at
lfs_migrate, on how to increase the no_of_inodes on OST's.

HTH
p

On 19 June 2013 19:19, E.S. Rosenberg <esr+lustre at mail.hebrew.edu<mailto:esr+lustre at mail.hebrew.edu>> wrote:
"
In a Lustre ldiskfs file system, all the inodes are allocated on the
MDT and OSTs when the file system is first formatted. The total number
of inodes on a formatted MDT or OST cannot be easily changed, although
it is possible to add OSTs with additional space and corresponding
inodes. Thus, the number of inodes created at format time should be
generous enough to anticipate future expansion.
"
http://build.whamcloud.com/job/lustre-manual/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/lustre_manual.xhtml#understandinglustre.fig.cluster



Also if lustrefs is really based on ext4 doesn't ext4 support growing
the amount of inodes with resize2fs?

Thanks,
Eli
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