Hi, There is a source tree in svn at projects/pnfs-planb-server which adds support for configuring a single Metadata Server (MDS) and multiple Data Servers (DS) to create a simple pNFS service. (In a pNFS server the Read/Write operations are separated from the rest of the metadata operations and go directly from the NFSv4.1 client to the DS, since that is where the fils's data resides.) The service does support mirrored DSs, but the recovery code for handling a failed DS is not done yet. I plan on working on that during Winter 2018.
The current implementation seems to be working ok for my testing. Any third party testing would be appreciated. The basic information on how it works and how to set up a pNFS service is at http://people.freebsd.org/~rmacklem/pnfs-planb-setup.txt (John Hixon is working on porting/testing it in FreeNAS, but hasn't quite had to time get all set up yet.) The big question is??? If/when this code should go into head/current? I cannot do commits during Winter 2018, so if it is going to happen before April 2018, I need to do it in December. I know a release schedule has not been worked out for FreeBSD12, but is April 2018 early enough or should it be done this December? The merge is large, but should not affect non-pNFS NFS service, rick _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
