[lustre-discuss] Quick ZFS pool question?

[Riccardo Veraldi]

Hello,
will the lustre 2.9.0 rpm be released on the Intel site ?
Also the latest rpm for zfsonlinux  available is 0.6.5.8
thank you

Riccardo


On 13/10/16 11:16, Dilger, Andreas wrote:
> On Oct 13, 2016, at 10:32, E.S. Rosenberg <esr+lustre at mail.hebrew.edu> wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 9:16 AM, Xiong, Jinshan <jinshan.xiong at intel.com> wrote:
>>
>>>> On Oct 6, 2016, at 2:04 AM, Phill Harvey-Smith <p.harvey-smith at warwick.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Having tested a simple setup for lustre / zfs, I'd like to try and
>>>> replicate on the test system what we currently have on the production
>>>> system, which uses a much older version of lustre (2.0 IIRC).
>>>>
>>>> Currently we have a combined mgs / mds node and a single oss node.
>>>> we have 3 filesystems : home, storage and scratch.
>>>>
>>>> The MGS/MDS node currently has the mgs on a seperate block device and
>>>> the 3 mds on a combined lvm volume.
>>>>
>>>> The OSS has an ost each (on a separate disks) for scratch and home
>>>> and two ost for storage.
>>>>
>>>> If we migrate this setup to a ZFS based one, will I need to create a
>>>> separate zpool for each mdt / mgt / oss  or will I be able to create
>>>> a single zpool and split it up between the individual mdt / oss blocks,
>>>> if so how do I tell each filesystem how big it should be?
>>> We strongly recommend to create separate ZFS pools for OSTs, otherwise grant, which is a Lustre internal space reserve algorithm, won’t work properly.
>>>
>>> It’s possible to create a single zpool for MDTs and MGS, and you can use ‘zfs set reservation=<space> <target>’ to reserve spaces for different targets.
>> I thought ZFS was only recommended for OSTs and not for MDTs/MGS?
> The MGT/MDT can definitely be on ZFS.  The performance of ZFS has been
> trailing behind that of ldiskfs, but we've made significant performance
> improvements with Lustre 2.9 and ZFS 0.7.0.  Many people use ZFS for the
> MDT backend because of the checksums and integrated JBOD management, as
> well as the ability to create snapshots, data compression, etc.
>
> Cheers, Andreas
>
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