On Fri, 8 Aug 2014, Salvatore Di Nardo wrote:
Now, skipping all this GSS rant, which have nothing to do with the file system anyway and going back to my question:Could someone point the main differences between GPFS and Lustre?
I'm looking at making the same decision here - to buy GPFS or to roll our own Lustre configuration. I'm in the process of setting up test systems, and so far the main difference seems to be in the that in GPFS each server sees the full filesystem, and so you can run other applications (e.g backup) on a GPFS server whereas the Luste OSS (object storage servers) see only a portion of the storage (the filesystem is striped across the OSSes), so you need a Lustre client to mount the full filesystem for things like backup.
However I have very little practical experience of either and would also be interested in any comments.
Thanks Jeremy -- [email protected] | (work) 01223 221402 (fax) 01223 362616 Unix System Administrator - British Antarctic Survey #include <disclaimer.std>
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