On Apr 19, 2008 15:52 -0700, James Hartley wrote: > I have heard rumors to the affect that there will be a sparc release > of lustre incorporating zfs. If this is true does anyone know how I > can get a copy, beta test, or sign up for the effort.
This is somewhat true. There is work well underway for using ZFS as a Lustre back-end filesystem, planned delivery Dec 2008. As part of this work, the servers will be moved to run in userspace, and as a result Lustre servers will be available on Solaris. There is currently no effort to support SPARC servers specifically under either Linux or Solaris. That said, there isn't a specific reason that the user-space servers WON'T work on SPARC. As yet there is no work underway for Lustre-on-Solaris clients, though it has been discussed. There is also no specific effort to support Lustre-on-Linux-SPARC clients, though we do support other big-endian clients so this might "just work" with the 1.6.5 release, which had some fixes for big-endian clients. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc. _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list Lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss