[Lustre-discuss] Lustre NFs expport

[Kaizaad Bilimorya]

On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Oleg Drokin wrote:
> Hello!
>
> On Dec 13, 2007, at 7:50 PM, Mertol Ozyoney wrote:
>
>> Is there any experiance about exporting Lustre via NFS to outside
>> world? Any whitepapers, how to guides, schemas etc..
>
> There are some people who do this, also HP support this with their
> Lustre spin-off and I think they are one of the biggest users at the 
> moment.

We have HP's currently available Lustre product (SFS 2.2-0 based on Lustre 
1.4.6) which only supports NFS re-export with 2.4 kernels. There was some 
interesting discussion about the re-export with this version for the 2.6 
kernels:

https://bugzilla.lustre.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10420

We are told that a newer SFS release should be available sometime in 
January 08 and will support NFS re-export with 2.6 kernels, though we were 
also told this prior to the previous release. And according to

https://bugzilla.lustre.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13371

there still seems to be some issues that will be hopefully sorted out by 
then.

-k