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as playground is fine.<br>
even in this type of env , IMHO, u will need to do some raid for 3x2tb
ost and mirror for mds<br>
Hope that U have enough memory and cpu power and network for MDS and
OST.<br>
these are dedicate for lustre, u need other compute nodes.<br>
regards<br>
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On 5/19/2010 1:31 PM, David Noriega wrote:
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cite="mid:AANLkTim48RNlg5z5DplbJh6br3us3r-JBoYsbKttBgFe@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">My supervisor has this idea and I would like the input of
the Lustre community as we are still very new to Lustre.
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<div>We have 7 workstations, and the idea was to put into them 3 2TB
drives, for a total of 42TB, and set them up as object servers, and
another workstation as a meta data server. How feasible is this idea?
And I know of the downfalls, what if a student reboots a machine, etc,
but baring those events, would this setup work?<br clear="all">
<br>
David
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