Lustre is great for HPC. It lacks the "sanctity of data" that other solutions have. It is getting there - using ZFS is a huge step forward, but Lustre is by no means a general purpose solution at this point.
Ian On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 1:09 PM, Andrew Gabriel <[email protected]> wrote: > Dan McDonald wrote: >>> >>> On Mar 20, 2015, at 2:27 PM, Jeff Stockett <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Does OmniOS support NFS v4.1? 4.1 support is a new feature in esxi v6, >>> and I was trying to set it up as described here: >>> http://wahlnetwork.com/2015/02/02/nfs-v4-1/ >>> Things of course work fine if I use NFS v3, but if I try v4.1, I get a >>> timeout error when it tries to attach the data store. Both the omnios >>> server and the esxi client are properly joined to Active Directory so I >>> think the required Kerberos stuff should be working. >>> >> >> >> We have NFS4.0 and earlier. We do not have NFS4.1. It would be a very >> sizeable undertaking, requiring illumos community support. If anyone would >> lead the charge on that, it'd be a storage-oriented firm, like Nexenta, or >> Delphix. >> > > > Does anyone seriously use (or intend to use) 4.1 anymore? > > Lustre has the parallel file server market (with some pockets of AFS too). > The large growth of parallel storage servers now tends to be object storage, > and S3 (as a protocol) has become the standard for that. > > Kind of makes me wonder what the market for NFSv4.1 is? > > -- > Andrew > > _______________________________________________ > OmniOS-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss -- Ian Kaufman Research Systems Administrator UC San Diego, Jacobs School of Engineering ikaufman AT ucsd DOT edu _______________________________________________ OmniOS-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss
