[LU-80] Wide striping support

• Type: New Feature
• Resolution: Fixed
• Priority: Minor
• Fix Version/s: Lustre 2.2.0
• Affects Version/s: Lustre 2.0.0, Lustre 2.1.0, Lustre 1.8.6
• Bugzilla ID: 4,424
• Assignee: Patrick Farrell (Inactive)
• Reporter: Oleg Drokin

Description

ORNL wants to have ability to stripe file across more than 160 OSTs.

There is a number of patches in the bugzilla bug, but they are not totally complete for 2.x and there are some known issues.
Interop is also still a concern.

Issue Links

• is related to: LU-2348 e2image produce invalid image for a large xattr patch.
• is related to: LU-908 multi-block xattr support
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