[Lustre-discuss] operations for updating (users') data

[Phil Schwan]

On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 10:33, Keqiang Wu wrote:
> Hi, I am in the process of studying "The Lustre Storage Architecture"
> (LSA). I found that LSA gives a detailed description on how the
> meta-data read and write are handled. But I could not find the detail
> information about the read and write for users' data stored on OST. I
> wonder where I can find such information. I would appreciate that if
> someone could give me a detail description on how the updates on
> client cached/non-cached data are handled (I more concern on the
> update operations).

Please read section 10.6 (The File Protocol) and chapter 11 (File
Striping Configuration).  Please ignore section 11.5, which looks to be
out of date, and will be fixed in a later version.

If you still have questions after that, let us know.

Thanks--

-Phil