Managing OSTs: Difference between revisions

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(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:

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-[[Creating and Managing OST Pools]]
+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]]
+* [[Managing Free Space]]. Describes two stripe allocation methods used to optimize file system performance: round-robin and weighted.
-[[Handling Full OSTs]] Sometimes the file system becomes unbalanced, often due to changed stripe settings. If an OST is full and an attempt is made to write more information to the file system, an error occurs. The procedures below describe how to handle a full OST.
+* [[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.
+* [http://wiki.lustre.org/manual/LustreManual20_HTML/ManagingStripingFreeSpace.html#50438209_pgfId-5529 Chapter 18: ''Managing File Striping and Free Space''] in the [http://wiki.lustre.org/manual/LustreManual20_HTML/index.html ''Lustre Operations Manual'']
+See also [[Lustre System Configuration Utilities]].