Niklas Edmundsson writes: > 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...
Yes, user space MDS is also in works. > > /Nikke Nikita. _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
