Managing OSTs

(Updated: Jan 2010)

For information about managing OSTs, see:
 * Creating and Managing OST Pools. Provides a means for allocating file striping to a subset of OSTs in a Lustre™ cluster.


 * Managing Free Space. Describes two stripe allocation methods used to optimize file system performance: round-robin and weighted.


 * Handling Full OSTs. Provides procedures for checking file system usage, taking a full OST offline, and migrating data within a file system.

For additional information about file striping, see:


 * Configuring Lustre File Striping. Describes now to configure striping and how to display striping information for a file.
 * Chapter 18: Managing File Striping and Free Space in the Lustre Operations Manual

See also Lustre System Configuration Utilities.