On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, Andreas Dilger wrote: > 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.
Does this include moving the MDS to userspace? Last time I looked at http://wiki.lustre.org/index.php?title=Lustre_OSS/MDS_with_ZFS_DMU it only talked about the OSS's, but it would really be nice to also have the MDS not dragging the kernel down with it when it crashes... /Nikke -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Niklas Edmundsson, Admin @ {acc,hpc2n}.umu.se | [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Drive A: not responding.. .Formating C: instead =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
