[Lustre-discuss] Lustre 1.6.2 + 2.6.18 - Directory index full!

[Erich Focht]

On Friday 28 September 2007 19:29, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Sep 28, 2007  09:47 -0700, Kevin Fox wrote:
> > Is there a reason clustered metadata must be ZFS only?
> 
> Because it requires changes to the on-disk directory format of ext3 in
> a way that isn't likely to ever make it into upstream ext4 and we don't
> want to support that indefinitely (adds a pointer to a remote MDS for an
> inode and stores 128-bit file identifiers).  Also, we need mechanism to
> do name->value lookups in the filesystem (also doesn't exist in ext3).
> Both of these are possible with ZFS.

Does this mean Lustre servers will some day run on Solaris, only? Can't
imagine you aim at ZFS-FUSE on Linux...

Regards,
Erich