* Supported cluster file system in v4.1 @ 2010-06-16 17:17 Yudong Gao 2010-06-23 6:49 ` Benny Halevy 0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread From: Yudong Gao @ 2010-06-16 17:17 UTC (permalink / raw) To: linux-nfs Hi, We are trying to setup a pNFS testbed and deploy a cluster file system on the storage servers. We find that the GFS from RedHat supports pNFS. But is there any other cluster file system that also supports pNFS? Thanks. Yudong ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: Supported cluster file system in v4.1 2010-06-16 17:17 Supported cluster file system in v4.1 Yudong Gao @ 2010-06-23 6:49 ` Benny Halevy 2010-06-23 17:14 ` Yudong Gao 0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread From: Benny Halevy @ 2010-06-23 6:49 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Yudong Gao; +Cc: linux-nfs On 2010-06-16 20:17, Yudong Gao wrote: > Hi, > > We are trying to setup a pNFS testbed and deploy a cluster file system > on the storage servers. We find that the GFS from RedHat supports > pNFS. But is there any other cluster file system that also supports > pNFS? Yudong, what are you looking for in your tests? Another option for the pNFS files layout is spnfs which is good for basic testing but it is experimental and not very well supported currently; i.e. if it breaks under load you'll probably have to fix it yourself... You could also consider testing exofs - a loosely clustered, objects-based file system that provides scalable performance and is stable enough for rather intensive workloads. Benny > > Thanks. > > Yudong > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: Supported cluster file system in v4.1 2010-06-23 6:49 ` Benny Halevy @ 2010-06-23 17:14 ` Yudong Gao 2010-06-23 17:33 ` Andy Adamson 2010-06-23 18:46 ` J. Bruce Fields 0 siblings, 2 replies; 5+ messages in thread From: Yudong Gao @ 2010-06-23 17:14 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Benny Halevy; +Cc: linux-nfs Hi Benny, Thanks a lot for the reply! I will check exofs. We are looking for a block-based cluster file system that can be deployed on top of a cluster of commodity machines and can use the machines' local storage instead of using a SAN. We find that OCFS2 is a good candidate. Is it possible to use OCFS2 as the storage server in pNFS? Thanks a lot! best, Yudong On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 11:49 PM, Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com> wrote: > On 2010-06-16 20:17, Yudong Gao wrote: >> Hi, >> >> We are trying to setup a pNFS testbed and deploy a cluster file system >> on the storage servers. We find that the GFS from RedHat supports >> pNFS. But is there any other cluster file system that also supports >> pNFS? > > Yudong, what are you looking for in your tests? > Another option for the pNFS files layout is spnfs which is good for basic testing > but it is experimental and not very well supported currently; i.e. if it breaks > under load you'll probably have to fix it yourself... > > You could also consider testing exofs - a loosely clustered, objects-based > file system that provides scalable performance and is stable enough for > rather intensive workloads. > > Benny > >> >> Thanks. >> >> Yudong >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in >> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: Supported cluster file system in v4.1 2010-06-23 17:14 ` Yudong Gao @ 2010-06-23 17:33 ` Andy Adamson 2010-06-23 18:46 ` J. Bruce Fields 1 sibling, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread From: Andy Adamson @ 2010-06-23 17:33 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Yudong Gao; +Cc: Benny Halevy, linux-nfs On Jun 23, 2010, at 1:14 PM, Yudong Gao wrote: > Hi Benny, > > Thanks a lot for the reply! I will check exofs. > > We are looking for a block-based cluster file system that can be > deployed on top of a cluster of commodity machines and can use the > machines' local storage instead of using a SAN. We find that OCFS2 is > a good candidate. Is it possible to use OCFS2 as the storage server in > pNFS? The Linux pNFS file layout server code is designed to be used by cluster file systems that use the DLM layer. So far, GFS2 has been exported by pNFS, but OCFS2 has not. It should (in theory) be relatively painless to export OCFS2... -->Andy > > Thanks a lot! > > best, > > Yudong > > On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 11:49 PM, Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com> > wrote: >> On 2010-06-16 20:17, Yudong Gao wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> We are trying to setup a pNFS testbed and deploy a cluster file >>> system >>> on the storage servers. We find that the GFS from RedHat supports >>> pNFS. But is there any other cluster file system that also supports >>> pNFS? >> >> Yudong, what are you looking for in your tests? >> Another option for the pNFS files layout is spnfs which is good for >> basic testing >> but it is experimental and not very well supported currently; i.e. >> if it breaks >> under load you'll probably have to fix it yourself... >> >> You could also consider testing exofs - a loosely clustered, >> objects-based >> file system that provides scalable performance and is stable enough >> for >> rather intensive workloads. >> >> Benny >> >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> Yudong >>> -- >>> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux- >>> nfs" in >>> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >>> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >> >> > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" > in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: Supported cluster file system in v4.1 2010-06-23 17:14 ` Yudong Gao 2010-06-23 17:33 ` Andy Adamson @ 2010-06-23 18:46 ` J. Bruce Fields 1 sibling, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread From: J. Bruce Fields @ 2010-06-23 18:46 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Yudong Gao; +Cc: Benny Halevy, linux-nfs On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 10:14:09AM -0700, Yudong Gao wrote: > Hi Benny, > > Thanks a lot for the reply! I will check exofs. > > We are looking for a block-based cluster file system that can be > deployed on top of a cluster of commodity machines and can use the > machines' local storage instead of using a SAN. We find that OCFS2 is > a good candidate. As far as I can tell OCFS2 and GFS2 are identical in their requirement for a shared disk. --b. > Is it possible to use OCFS2 as the storage server in > pNFS? ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
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