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Lustre 1.6 Operations Manual

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CHAPTER 25<br />

Striping and I/O Options<br />

This chapter describes file striping and I/O options, and includes the following<br />

sections:<br />

■ File Striping<br />

■ Displaying Files and Directories with lfs getstripe<br />

■ lfs setstripe – Setting File Layouts<br />

■<br />

■<br />

■<br />

■<br />

Free Space Management<br />

Performing Direct I/O<br />

Other I/O Options<br />

Striping Using llapi<br />

25.1 File Striping<br />

<strong>Lustre</strong> stores files of one or more objects on OSTs. When a file is comprised of more<br />

than one object, <strong>Lustre</strong> stripes the file data across them in a round-robin fashion.<br />

Users can configure the number of stripes, the size of each stripe, and the servers<br />

that are used.<br />

One of the most frequently-asked <strong>Lustre</strong> questions is “How should I stripe my files, and<br />

what is a good default?” The short answer is that it depends on your needs. A good<br />

rule of thumb is to stripe over as few objects as will meet those needs and no more.<br />

25-1

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