[Lustre-discuss] Using Lustre as a storage backend for non-Lustre clients?

[Andreas Dilger]

On Dec 12, 2007  12:48 -0800, Klaus Steden wrote:
> Just spit balling some ideas in the lab here ... has anyone ever
> experimented with using Lustre as a storage backend for multiple
> conventional NAS protocols? i.e. configure a nominal Lustre environment, and
> configure each Lustre client as a Samba and/or NFS server?

Yes, it is possible to re-export Lustre with Samba and NFS.

> If anyone's done something like this before, what kind of performance
> numbers did you see under nominal operating conditions?

The performance isn't as good as with Lustre, but we are working to
improve it.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.