[Lustre-discuss] [SPAM] sparc server plus zfs

[Andreas Dilger]

On Apr 19, 2008  15:52 -0700, James Hartley wrote:
> I have heard rumors to the affect that there will be a sparc release
> of lustre incorporating zfs.  If this is true does anyone know how I
> can get a copy, beta test, or sign up for the effort.

This is somewhat true.  There is work well underway for using ZFS 
as a Lustre back-end filesystem, planned delivery Dec 2008.  As
part of this work, the servers will be moved to run in userspace,
and as a result Lustre servers will be available on Solaris.

There is currently no effort to support SPARC servers specifically under
either Linux or Solaris.  That said, there isn't a specific reason that
the user-space servers WON'T work on SPARC.

As yet there is no work underway for Lustre-on-Solaris clients,
though it has been discussed.  There is also no specific effort to
support Lustre-on-Linux-SPARC clients, though we do support other
big-endian clients so this might "just work" with the 1.6.5 release,
which had some fixes for big-endian clients.

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