pNFS setup documentation.

pNFS setup documentation.

[Benjamin ESTRABAUD]

Hi!

I'm trying to setup a pNFS cluster, but I'm unable to find any 
meaningful documentation about it.

I understand I have to setup a bunch of NFSv4.1 enabled systems as well 
as a Metadata service and a "layout agent" on the client nodes but I'm 
not able to find any infos about setting up the Metadata service or even 
the layout agent, nor am I able to find information about what version 
of the nfsutils I should use.

Is there a nice documentation that I could use somewhere (Any 
distribution is fine, I can adapt).

Thanks a lot in advance!

Regards,
Ben - MPSTOR.

Re: pNFS setup documentation.

[J. Bruce Fields]

On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 12:59:17PM +0100, Benjamin ESTRABAUD wrote:
> I'm trying to setup a pNFS cluster, but I'm unable to find any
> meaningful documentation about it.
> 
> I understand I have to setup a bunch of NFSv4.1 enabled systems as
> well as a Metadata service and a "layout agent" on the client nodes
> but I'm not able to find any infos about setting up the Metadata
> service or even the layout agent, nor am I able to find information
> about what version of the nfsutils I should use.
> 
> Is there a nice documentation that I could use somewhere (Any
> distribution is fine, I can adapt).
> 
> Thanks a lot in advance!

The only all-linux pNFS implementations have been out-of-tree
prototypes.  The exception is Christoph's block server, just merged.

I put some very rough instructions (and warnings) here:

	http://wiki.linux-nfs.org/wiki/index.php/PNFS_block_server_setup

--b.