Hello, On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 12:27:11 -0400 Boyd Wilson wrote: > Chuck, > Did you try the kmod in 2.8.6? (just released a week or so ago on > orangefs.org/download). We tried to fix several things in it (many > long standing issues).
I'm glad to hear this. I have already planned to update OrangeFS on our setup to 2.8.6, but ATM the whole cluster in production and I can't update it easily. I'll try to do this at the very end of summer. As for OrangeFS stability, we have no problems with 2.8.5 after switching to FUSE client. Really, I'm not happy with fuse being used in the cluster, especially for such critical and heavy loaded task, but for the time being this in a way to go. As for stability of other solutions, I tried many of them already and absolutely any distributed parallel filesystem has its own problems, and most of the problems are very specific for each solution. (Perhaps the only common problem is a serious performance bottleneck when dealing with large amounts of small files.) So IMO serious issues with any cluster-scale parallel distributed filesystems are inevitable and sysadmin will need a lot of time to set them up and tune properly. Your mileage may vary, of course. Best regards, Andrew Savchenko
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