Resending as the original message bounced back (html). -------- Original Message -------- From: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 01:56:44 +0200 Subject: Re: [nfsv4] PNFS questions To: Michael Maymann <michael@xxxxxxxxxxx>, NFS list <linux-nfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "nfsv4@xxxxxxxx" <nfsv4@xxxxxxxx> Michael, the IETF mailing list is really not the right place to ask about commercial solutions in general or linux solutions in particular. Cc'ing the linux-nfs mailing list. Comments in line below. On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 9:02 PM, Michael Maymann <michael@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Hi list, > > I'm setting up a new BIO-HPC facility and are looking for a fault > tolerant, scalable, fast and priceeffective storage solution. > > I have been looking at Coraid, Panasas and Lustre, but would like to > investigate my options also of building my own PNFS solution. Clients are > all Debian based. > > Can anyone recommend: > 1. If PNFS is ready for production or if I should stick with a commercial > vendor or build a Lustre solution ? > There is no pNFS server implementation in upstream linux yet. We maintain a development out-of-kernel tree in git:// linux-nfs.org/~bhalevy/linux-pnfs.git but it is not production ready. > 2. PNFS Metadata server SW prefferably for Debian ? > ditto #1 > 3. PNFS Diskshelfs to be used ? > In pNFS terminology, these are Data Servers. > 4. If AOE (ATA Over Ethernet) would make any sense together with PNFS ? > Maybe using the Block layout and AoE as the block storage transport protocol. > 5. PNFS GUI SW prefferably for Debian ? > ditto #1 > Thanks in advance :-) ! > > BR. > ~Maymann > > _______________________________________________ > nfsv4 mailing list > nfsv4@xxxxxxxx > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/nfsv4 > > -- 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
