[lustre-discuss] Stripe size for osts

[Kurt Strosahl]

Good Afternoon,

    I'm experimenting with ost configurations geared more towards small files and operations on those small files (like source code, and compiling), and I was wondering about changing the stripe size so that small files fit more efficiently on an ost.  I believe that would be the --param lov.stripesize=XX option for mkfs.lustre, is that correct?  And is there a lower limit that I should know about?

w/r,
Kurt J. Strosahl
Systems Administrator: HPC, Lustre, Infiniband
Scientific Computing Group, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility