Fault tolerance

Posted Dec 18, 2003 15:19 UTC (Thu) by snitm (guest, #4031)
In reply to: Fault tolerance by rmacaulay
Parent article: Lustre 1.0 released

Client level Raid1 or Raid5 isn't possible; however CFS has been working on the infrastructure for adding such support to Lustre, from a Lustre cvs commit message:

Add new LOV EA format which gives us fields for features needed in the post
1.0 stage (e.g. RAID, OST migration/replacement) as well as more efficient
storage than the current layout when there are few stripes on lots of OSTs.