[pnfs] Taking a look at pNFS?

[Dean Hildebrand]

Thijs.Stuurman at os3.nl wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> As a student I have been asked to take a look at pNFS to see
> what it is all about. I have been trying to create a testing
> environment but ran in to problems with PVFS as the layout driver
> seems to be missing followed by finding a message from this mailing
> list (http://linux-nfs.org/pipermail/pnfs/2008-May/003656.html) noting
> it has all been outdated by far.
>
> What would be a good way for me to set up a testing environment? (spNFS?)
>   
spNFS would work.  We will have a version that works with GFS2 in the 
git repository very soon (stayed tuned to this mailing list).  If you 
are interested in still working with pvfs2, then you could work to move 
the pnfs patches for pvfs2 forward to the latest versions of the 
pvfs2/linux code.

What file system you choose to export all depends on what your goals 
are.  Do you want to hack extensions?  Do you want to use it for 
production (not yet!) or a scratch space (very very scratchy)? etc etc...
Dean
> Thanks in advance.
>
>    Greetings,
>       Thijs Stuurman
>
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