A little taste of self-advertising... nfs-ganesha v0.99.40 is released

[DENIEL Philippe]

Hi to all,

this time, I will not ask a question related to NFSv4, but announce that 
the NFS server I am working on is now available for download via 
sourceforge.
Current links are http://nfs-ganesha.sourceforge.net/ (project's 
homepage, hosted by sourceforge) and 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/nfs-ganesha (summary on sourceforge 
website).
I a few words, NFS-GANESHA is
    - the reason for my presence on this mailing
    - fully running in user's space and designed to managed huge 
metadata and data caches (up to millions of records)
    - designed to work with different backend modules (called FSAL which 
stand for File System Abstraction Layer) that make it possible to 
address different namespaces 
          Available FSALs are:
                            - FSAL_POSIX: provides NFS export to any 
namespace accessible via the good old POSIX interface (it uses a pgsql 
db for persistent "reverse lookup" information)
                            - FSAL_SNMP: provides a way to have NFS 
export on SNMP data, making SNMP information visible in a "/proc like" way
                            - FSAL_FUSE: provides an interface dedicated 
to products available with a FUSE interface (and this NFS export will 
fully resides in User Space, no explicit access to kernel)
                            - FSAL_PROXY: this is basically a NFSv4 
client, compliant with the FSAL API, used in NFS-GANESHA, it tuns it to 
a NFSv4 proxy

The product was originally developed to provide us with an efficient NFS 
to HPSS (http://www.hpss-collaboration.org/hpss/index.jsp), a commercial 
HSM that we used in our compute center, but the product was designed in 
a modular way, so that other namespaces could be exported via 
NFS-GANESHA. A FSAL_HPSS exists, but it is not provided as a free 
software and is freely available for HPSS users.
We use NFS-GANESHA on our site since January 2006, in NFSv3/UDP, in 
front of several hundreds of client (a SMP supercomputer). I think the 
v3 support is OK and very reliable, but many things are still to be 
fixed with the NFSv4 support. Any remarks and comments are welcome (or 
bug reports as well)

   Thank you for the time you took reading my (too verbose) mail :-)

       Philippe