[lustre-discuss] Advice Lustre & ZFS.

E.S. Rosenberg esr+lustre at mail.hebrew.edu
Thu Sep 29 07:34:30 PDT 2016


Isn't hw raid bounds and leagues faster then any software raid that you're
ever going to be putting in?

We have lustre OSTs running on RAID6 arrays and MDT/MGT on RAID1 with
ldiskfs as filesystem....

On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 5:09 PM, Phill Harvey-Smith <
p.harvey-smith at warwick.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Now I have my test setup working on Centos 7.2, with Lustre 2.8 backed by
> ZFS, I have a question relates to this setup.
>
> Looking on the net the advice seems to be if you are going to run ZFS you
> should turn off hardware raid and let the zfs pool handle it, would this
> advice still hold for lustre + zfs? What are other people doing that are
> operating a similar setup?
>
> Cheers.
>
> Phill.
> _______________________________________________
> lustre-discuss mailing list
> lustre-discuss at lists.lustre.org
> http://lists.lustre.org/listinfo.cgi/lustre-discuss-lustre.org
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.lustre.org/pipermail/lustre-discuss-lustre.org/attachments/20160929/3be71184/attachment-0001.htm>


More information about the lustre-discuss mailing list