On May 22, 2009 10:33 -0700, Jeffrey Bennett wrote: > I guess you could implement some sort of gridftp plugin, a DSI module > is what they call it, to write data directly to the OSS and then you > could install gridftp servers on the OSS. This is basically what the HPSS > DSI module for Gridftp does, it writes data directly to the HPSS system > using the HPSS API. However, I am not sure it's technically possible > with Lustre.
It is possible to mount Lustre clients on the OSS nodes, if you are willing to make at least the GridFTP port accessible to the outside network on those nodes. That said, this exposes the back-end storage to attack by a remote client, if the GridFTP server is not secure. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc. _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
