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| {{ :abstract:caviness:filesystems:caviness-lustre-striping.png?500 |Lustre striping.}} | {{ :abstract:caviness:filesystems:caviness-lustre-striping.png?500 |Lustre striping.}} |
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| Without striping, all 13 MiB of the file resides in a single object on ''OST0001'' (see (a) above). All i/o with respect to this file is handled by ''OSS1''; appending 5 MiB to the file will grow the object to 18 MiB. | Without striping, all 13 MiB of the file resides in a single object on ''ost0'' (see (a) above). All i/o with respect to this file is handled by ''oss0''; appending 5 MiB to the file will grow the object to 18 MiB. |
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| With a stripe count of three and size of 4 MiB, the Lustre filesystem pre-allocates three objects on unique OSTs on behalf of the file (see (b) above). The file is split into sequential segments of 4 MiB -- a stripe -- and the stripes are written round-robin to the objects allocated to the file. In this case, appending 5 MiB to the file will see stripe 3 extended to a full 4 MiB and a new stripe of 2 MiB added to the object on ''OST0007''. For large files and record-style files, striping introduces another level of parallelism that can dramatically increase the performance of programs that access them. | With a stripe count of three and size of 4 MiB, the Lustre filesystem pre-allocates three objects on unique OSTs on behalf of the file (see (b) above). The file is split into sequential segments of 4 MiB -- a stripe -- and the stripes are written round-robin to the objects allocated to the file. In this case, appending 5 MiB to the file will see stripe 3 extended to a full 4 MiB and a new stripe of 2 MiB added to the object on ''ost1''. For large files and record-style files, striping introduces another level of parallelism that can dramatically increase the performance of programs that access them. |
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| <note tip>File striping is established when the file is created. Use the ''lfs setstripe'' command to pre-allocate the objects for a striped file: ''lfs setstripe -c 4 -s 8m my_new_file.nc'' would create the file ''my_new_file.nc'' containing zero bytes with a stripe size (-s) of 8 MiB and striped across four objects (-c).</note> | <note tip>File striping is established when the file is created. Use the ''lfs setstripe'' command to pre-allocate the objects for a striped file: ''lfs setstripe -c 4 -s 8m my_new_file.nc'' would create the file ''my_new_file.nc'' containing zero bytes with a stripe size (-s) of 8 MiB and striped across four objects (-c).</note> |