BeeGFS course day 1

Striping

• Chunk size: 64 KB (least) to 32 MB (or higher for really large files)
• change targets and chunks size per directory
  • lees targets and chunksize for smaller files
  • more for larger files
  • separate smaller and larger files
• set via beegfs-ctl

Multi-mode

• Common (check presentation for setup)
  • register at mgmt server
    • -s for unique id AND -S unique name
    • Think of a system for this

See also: BeeGFS course overview, BeeGFS course day 2, MOC Computing DevOps and Software