Managing OSTs

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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:

• 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.

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