[lustre-discuss] What does your (next) MDT look like?

[Ben Evans]

Slightly left-field question for MDTs, will we enable data on inode for
really tiny files in ldiskfs?

-Ben

On 2/22/18, 2:02 PM, "lustre-discuss on behalf of Dilger, Andreas"
<lustre-discuss-bounces at lists.lustre.org on behalf of
andreas.dilger at intel.com> wrote:

>On Feb 6, 2018, at 10:32, E.S. Rosenberg <esr+lustre at mail.hebrew.edu>
>wrote:
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>> Hello fellow Lustre users :)
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>> Since I didn't want to take the "size of MDT, inode count, inode size"
>>thread too far off-topic I'm starting a new thread.
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>> I'm curious how many people are using SSD MDTs?
>> Also how practical is such a thing in a 2.11.x Data On MDT scenario?
>> Is using some type of mix between HDD and SSD storage for MDTs
>>practical?
>> Does SSD vs HDD have an effect as far as ldiskfs vs zfs?
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>It is worthwhile to mention that using DoM is going to be a lot easier
>with ZFS in a "fluid" usage environment than it will be with ldiskfs.
>The ZFS MDTs do not have pre-allocated inode/data separation, so enabling
>DoM will just mean you can put fewer inodes on the MDT if you put more
>data there.  With ldiskfs you have to decide this ratio at format time.
>The drawback is that ZFS is somewhat slower for metadata than ldiskfs,
>though it has improved in 2.10 significantly.
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>Cheers, Andreas
>--
>Andreas Dilger
>Lustre Principal Architect
>Intel Corporation
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