Hi Kshitij, If you're using a reasonably modern Lustre you can use the OST pools feature. This allows you to assign certain OST's to certain files/directories.
see 'OST Pools' in the operations manual for more information. -cf On 02/13/2012 09:56 AM, Kevin Canady wrote: > More appropriate mail list for this question. > > Cheers, > Kevin > > On 2/9/12 3:24 PM, "Kshitij Mehta"<[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello, >> My lustre installation has a total of 64 OSTs and I have created a >> directory that has been configured over 8 OSTs. >> However, files in this directory get striped over different OSTs. For >> example, >> file 1 might get striped over OSTs 0 thru 7, whereas file 2 might get >> striped over OSTs 8 thru 15. >> >> How can I configure a directory so that files in it get striped across >> the *same* set of OSTs? >> >> Thanks, >> Kshitij Mehta >> PhD candidate >> Parallel Software Technologies Lab (pstl.cs.uh.edu) >> Dept. of Computer Science >> University of Houston >> Houston, Texas, USA >> _______________________________________________ >> Lustre-community mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-community > > _______________________________________________ > Lustre-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
