[lustre-discuss] Is it a good practice to use big OST?

[Carlson, Timothy S]

I've been running 100->200TB OSTs making up small petabyte file systems for the last 4 or 5 years with no pain.  Lustre 2.5.x through current generation.

Plenty of ZFS rebuilds when I ran across a set of bad disks that went fine.

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Subject: [lustre-discuss] Is it a good practice to use big OST?

Hi All
We recently purchased new storage hardware, and that gives us the options of creating big zpools for OSTs (>100TB per OST),
I am wondering if anyone has any experience of using big OSTs and if that would impact the performance of lustre in a good or bad way?


Any comments or suggestions are appreciated!

Cheers!
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