Hi Benny, Thanks a lot for the reply! I will check exofs. We are looking for a block-based cluster file system that can be deployed on top of a cluster of commodity machines and can use the machines' local storage instead of using a SAN. We find that OCFS2 is a good candidate. Is it possible to use OCFS2 as the storage server in pNFS? Thanks a lot! best, Yudong On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 11:49 PM, Benny Halevy <bhalevy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2010-06-16 20:17, Yudong Gao wrote: >> Hi, >> >> We are trying to setup a pNFS testbed and deploy a cluster file system >> on the storage servers. We find that the GFS from RedHat supports >> pNFS. But is there any other cluster file system that also supports >> pNFS? > > Yudong, what are you looking for in your tests? > Another option for the pNFS files layout is spnfs which is good for basic testing > but it is experimental and not very well supported currently; i.e. if it breaks > under load you'll probably have to fix it yourself... > > You could also consider testing exofs - a loosely clustered, objects-based > file system that provides scalable performance and is stable enough for > rather intensive workloads. > > Benny > >> >> Thanks. >> >> Yudong >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in >> the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html