Fwd: Re: [nfsv4] PNFS questions

Fwd: Re: [nfsv4] PNFS questions

[Benny Halevy]

Resending as the original message bounced back (html).


-------- Original Message --------
From: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@primarydata.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 01:56:44 +0200
Subject: Re: [nfsv4] PNFS questions
To: Michael Maymann <michael@maymann.org>, NFS list <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: "nfsv4@ietf.org" <nfsv4@ietf.org>

Michael, the IETF mailing list is really not the right place to ask about
commercial solutions in general or linux solutions in particular.
Cc'ing the linux-nfs mailing list. Comments in line below.


On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 9:02 PM, Michael Maymann <michael@maymann.org>wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> I'm setting up a new BIO-HPC facility and are looking for a fault
> tolerant, scalable, fast and priceeffective storage solution.
>
> I have been looking at Coraid, Panasas and Lustre, but would like to
> investigate my options also of building my own PNFS solution. Clients are
> all Debian based.
>
> Can anyone recommend:
> 1. If PNFS is ready for production or if I should stick with a commercial
> vendor or build a Lustre solution ?
>

There is no pNFS server implementation in upstream linux yet.
We maintain a development out-of-kernel tree in git://
linux-nfs.org/~bhalevy/linux-pnfs.git
but it is not production ready.


> 2. PNFS Metadata server SW prefferably for Debian ?
>

ditto #1


>  3. PNFS Diskshelfs to be used ?
>

In pNFS terminology, these are Data Servers.


>  4. If AOE (ATA Over Ethernet) would make any sense together with PNFS ?
>

Maybe using the Block layout and AoE as the block storage transport
protocol.


>  5. PNFS GUI SW prefferably for Debian ?
>

ditto #1



> Thanks in advance :-) !
>
> BR.
> ~Maymann
>
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