[pnfs] Taking a look at pNFS?

[david m. richter]

On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Dean Hildebrand <seattleplus at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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 it has all been outdated by far.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

i don't know what your interests are, but the GFS2-related setup isn't
too difficult.  there are a couple sets of setup notes online at:

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

we managed to pass the connectathon tests, but are having trouble with
large writes at the moment.  benny halevy has that initial kernel code
in the "pnfs-gfs2" branch online at:

http://git.linux-nfs.org

note that that code is really only the barest start at pNFS/GFS2 integration.

good luck,

  d
  .

> 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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