On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 10:05 -0400, sethpn at gmail.com
wrote:> What is an example of a commodity OST?
And OST is a storage target, a.k.a. a block device in a Linux system.
Given that, you probably won''t get any more "commodity" than,
say, a
SATA disk.
> I feel that OSTs can only be
> NAS''s. Am I correct?
No. NASes specifically cannot be OSTs. NASes are formatted, shared out
filesystems. Lustre OSTs must be unformatted block devices.
b.
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