Dear Tung-Han, you can use Lustre with ZFS backend and enabled compression. That has the effect you are looking for and works very well.
Cheers, Robert Am 09.09.20 um 05:13 schrieb Tung-Han Hsieh: > Dear All, > > I would like to ask whether Lustre file system has implemented the > function to optimize for large sparse data files ? > > For example, a 3GB data file but with more than 80% bytes zero, can > Lustre file system optimize the storage not actually taking the whole > 3GB of disk space ? > > I know that some file systems (e.g., ZFS) has this function. If Lustre > does not have it, is there a roadmap to implement it in the future ? > > Thanks for your reply in advance. > > Best Regards, > > T.H.Hsieh > _______________________________________________ > lustre-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lustre.org/listinfo.cgi/lustre-discuss-lustre.org _______________________________________________ lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lustre.org/listinfo.cgi/lustre-discuss-lustre.org
