Lustre FAQ: Revision history

30 November 2009

• curprev 15:2415:24, 30 November 2009‎ Docadmin talk contribs‎ 54,585 bytes −1‎ →‎Recovery
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• curprev 15:2215:22, 30 November 2009‎ Docadmin talk contribs‎ 54,586 bytes −29‎ →‎Object Servers and I/O Throughput
• curprev 15:2015:20, 30 November 2009‎ Docadmin talk contribs‎ 54,615 bytes +11‎ →‎Metadata Servers
• curprev 15:1815:18, 30 November 2009‎ Docadmin talk contribs‎ 54,604 bytes +3‎ →‎Networking
• curprev 15:1615:16, 30 November 2009‎ Docadmin talk contribs‎ 54,601 bytes +3‎ →‎Installation
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• curprev 15:1215:12, 30 November 2009‎ Docadmin talk contribs‎ 54,618 bytes +1‎ →‎Fundamentals

25 November 2009

• curprev 23:2623:26, 25 November 2009‎ Adilger talk contribs‎ 54,617 bytes −361‎ →‎How can you add proprietary features?: remove section
• curprev 23:2523:25, 25 November 2009‎ Adilger talk contribs‎ 54,978 bytes −173‎ →‎What is the licensing model for the Lustre file system for Linux?
• curprev 23:2123:21, 25 November 2009‎ Adilger talk contribs‎ 55,151 bytes +3‎ →‎Are Lustre releases backwards and forward compatible on the disk? On the wire?
• curprev 23:1723:17, 25 November 2009‎ Adilger talk contribs‎ 55,148 bytes +88‎ →‎How does the Lustre group fix issues?: reference bugzilla
• curprev 23:1523:15, 25 November 2009‎ Adilger talk contribs‎ 55,060 bytes +55‎ →‎Do you support Lustre on an SGI Altix?: update comments
• curprev 23:1023:10, 25 November 2009‎ Adilger talk contribs‎ 55,005 bytes +123‎ →‎What if I don't run one of those kernels?: clarify comments
• curprev 23:0123:01, 25 November 2009‎ Adilger talk contribs‎ 54,882 bytes +1‎ →‎Which Linux distributions are supported?: remove old distros
• curprev 22:5922:59, 25 November 2009‎ Adilger talk contribs‎ 54,881 bytes −220‎ →‎Can I run Lustre without patching my kernel?
• curprev 22:5822:58, 25 November 2009‎ Adilger talk contribs‎ 55,101 bytes +281‎ →‎Are there plans to get these patches into the kernel.org/OSDL kernel?: update answer
• curprev 22:4222:42, 25 November 2009‎ Adilger talk contribs‎ m 54,820 bytes 0‎ →‎Why have you decided to patch the Linux kernel?
• curprev 22:3522:35, 25 November 2009‎ Adilger talk contribs‎ 54,820 bytes +193‎ →‎Do you plan to support OSS failover without shared storage?: mention DRBD
• curprev 22:0422:04, 25 November 2009‎ Adilger talk contribs‎ 54,627 bytes +32‎ →‎Which interconnects and protocols are currently supported?: remove obsolete networks
• curprev 22:0222:02, 25 November 2009‎ Adilger talk contribs‎ 54,595 bytes −15‎ →‎Are fibrechannel switches necessary? How does HA shared storage work?
• curprev 22:0122:01, 25 November 2009‎ Adilger talk contribs‎ 54,610 bytes −5‎ →‎Which storage devices are supported, on MDS and OSS nodes?
• curprev 22:0022:00, 25 November 2009‎ Adilger talk contribs‎ 54,615 bytes +186‎ →‎What is the typical MDS node configuration?: mention infiniband
• curprev 21:5621:56, 25 November 2009‎ Adilger talk contribs‎ 54,429 bytes −21‎ →‎What is the largest possible I/O request?: remove some old wording about read/write limits
• curprev 21:5221:52, 25 November 2009‎ Adilger talk contribs‎ m 54,450 bytes +5‎ →‎What is the maximum number of files in a single file system? In a single directory?: update stat rate to 20000/s
• curprev 21:4121:41, 25 November 2009‎ Adilger talk contribs‎ m 54,445 bytes +2‎ →‎What is the maximum single-file size?
• curprev 21:4021:40, 25 November 2009‎ Adilger talk contribs‎ m 54,443 bytes +25‎ →‎What is the maximum file system block size?: minor rewording
• curprev 21:3721:37, 25 November 2009‎ Adilger talk contribs‎ m 54,418 bytes +74‎ →‎What is the maximum file system size? What is the largest file system you've tested?: update to 64TB
• curprev 21:3321:33, 25 November 2009‎ Adilger talk contribs‎ m 54,344 bytes +90‎ →‎Why did Lustre choose ext3? Do you ever plan to support others?: minor updates
• curprev 21:2921:29, 25 November 2009‎ Adilger talk contribs‎ 54,254 bytes +441‎ →‎Is Lustre "POSIX compliant"? Are there any exceptions?: minor updates
• curprev 18:5618:56, 25 November 2009‎ Adilger talk contribs‎ 53,813 bytes +220‎ →‎Does Lustre separate metadata and file data?: mention MDS is not involved in file IO

3 November 2009

• curprev 13:5513:55, 3 November 2009‎ Docadmin talk contribs‎ m 53,593 bytes 0‎ moved Use:Lustre FAQ to Lustre FAQ

22 July 2009

• curprev 15:4615:46, 22 July 2009‎ Adilger talk contribs‎ m 53,593 bytes +154‎ →‎Why did Lustre choose ext3? Do you ever plan to support others?
• curprev 15:4515:45, 22 July 2009‎ Adilger talk contribs‎ m 53,439 bytes 0‎ →‎What is the maximum file system size? What is the largest file system you've tested?
• curprev 15:4315:43, 22 July 2009‎ Adilger talk contribs‎ m 53,439 bytes −49‎ →‎What is the maximum number of files in a single file system? In a single directory?: reword
• curprev 15:4115:41, 22 July 2009‎ Adilger talk contribs‎ 53,488 bytes −89‎ →‎How many nodes can connect to a single Lustre file system?: increase client counts for ORNL
• curprev 15:3515:35, 22 July 2009‎ Adilger talk contribs‎ 53,577 bytes −127‎ →‎Can you use NFS or CIFS to reach a Lustre volume?: remove complaints about NFS
• curprev 15:3215:32, 22 July 2009‎ Adilger talk contribs‎ m 53,704 bytes +11‎ →‎What is the typical MDS node configuration?: add SSDs for low latency
• curprev 15:3015:30, 22 July 2009‎ Adilger talk contribs‎ 53,693 bytes −56‎ →‎What is the typical OSS node configuration?
• curprev 15:2815:28, 22 July 2009‎ Adilger talk contribs‎ m 53,749 bytes 0‎ →‎Which architectures are interoperable?: problem still exists on 1.8/2.0
• curprev 15:2615:26, 22 July 2009‎ Adilger talk contribs‎ m 53,749 bytes +125‎ →‎What is the estimated installation time per I/O node?
• curprev 15:2415:24, 22 July 2009‎ Adilger talk contribs‎ m 53,624 bytes +65‎ →‎What is the estimated installation time per compute node?
• curprev 15:2315:23, 22 July 2009‎ Adilger talk contribs‎ m 53,559 bytes +64‎ →‎What is the estimated installation time per I/O node?
• curprev 15:2315:23, 22 July 2009‎ Adilger talk contribs‎ m 53,495 bytes +110‎ →‎Isn't the single metadata server a bottleneck?: remove mention of pdirops in ext3
• curprev 15:2115:21, 22 July 2009‎ Adilger talk contribs‎ m 53,385 bytes −72‎ →‎What levels of throughput should I expect?: remove elan (no longer interesting)
• curprev 15:1715:17, 22 July 2009‎ Adilger talk contribs‎ m 53,457 bytes −12‎ →‎Which operating systems are/will be supported?: remove date for solaris
• curprev 15:0915:09, 22 July 2009‎ Adilger talk contribs‎ m 53,469 bytes +88‎ →‎Which disk file systems are supported as Lustre back-end file systems?: add ext4

23 June 2009

• curprev 14:3614:36, 23 June 2009‎ Adilger talk contribs‎ 53,381 bytes +52‎ →‎What is the typical MDS node configuration?

9 April 2009

• curprev 10:1510:15, 9 April 2009‎ Docadmin talk contribs‎ m 53,329 bytes 0‎ moved Learn:Lustre FAQ to Use:Lustre FAQ