Lustre 1.8 and Pools

Beginning with Lustre 1.8, the concept of pools was introduced. Pools are a method for isolating groups of OSTs based on common characteristics. This is most commonly used to group OSTs based on similar hardware type or RAID configuration. An example would be to have a pool of very high performance SAS disks, and a lower performance set of SATA disks, within the same filesystem. Pools will allow users to specify which pool their files are read from and written too.

Next to each section of commands is the system they must be run from.

For these commands, 'lusfs01' is the name of the lustre file system. pool1 and pool2 are the names of the example pools, and we have a total of 10 OSTs within this file system.

Creating a new pool (MGS)
# lctl pool_new lusfs01.pool1
# lctl pool_new lusfs01.pool2

Assigning OSTs to a pool (MGS)
# lctl pool_add lusfs01.pool1 lustre-OST000[0-3]_UUID
# lctl pool_add lusfs01.pool2 lustre-OST000[4-7]_UUID

Listing Available pools (MGS)
# lfs pool_list lusfs01

List OSTs in a given pool (MGS)
# lfs pool_list lusfs01.pool1
# lfs pool_list lusfs01.pool2

Setting a file/directory strip to use a specific pool (Client)
# lfs setstripe -p pool1 /lusfs01/dir1
# lfs setstripe -p pool1 /lusfs01/dir1/file1
# lfs setstripe -p pool2 /lusfs01/dir2
# lfs setstripe -p pool2 /lusfs01/dir2/file1