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- From: mcnab@dinsdale.nas.nasa.gov (David McNab)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.cray
- Subject: Re: DMF and Clustered File Systems
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.200655.16333@nas.nasa.gov>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 20:06:55 GMT
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- Gregg A. Mantock wrote...
-
- > Does anyone know if a file can span accross multiple devices
- > in a clustered file system?
-
- [text deleted]
-
- > This becomes an interesting situation when the Data Migration
- > Facility and File System Monitoring are running on the
- > clustered file system.
-
- ...and in response, Jim Gmeinder wrote...
-
- > Yes, the clustered file system need not be migrated until the entire
- > cluster's warning/critical thresholds are reached. DMF manages a clustered
- > file system as it would a normal (i.e. contained on one device) filesystem.
- > Therefore, you want DMF actions started by fsmon, since it also views
- > the cluster as a single filesystem.
-
- ...which ducks the question a bit. If a file could not span
- devices, it could theoretically fill its partition without
- filling the file system past the fsmon trigger point. Migration
- wouldn't be triggered although from the user's point of view
- there would be no more disk space (at least for that file).
-
- But on a Cray 2 (NC2FS), which I assume Gregg is working with
- because he refers to clusters, a file can span devices. If the
- original partition fills up space will be allocated from others
- in the cluster.
-
- I've had problems where a clustered physical device fills up and
- causes problems, even though the file system has free space on other
- partitions. But only when restoring dumps.
-
- David McNab
- mcnab@nas.nasa.gov
- Parallel Systems Support
- NAS Program, NASA/Ames Res. Ctr.
-