[Lustre-discuss] Userspace MDS?

[Niklas Edmundsson]

On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, Andreas Dilger wrote:

> 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.

Does this include moving the MDS to userspace? Last time I looked at 
http://wiki.lustre.org/index.php?title=Lustre_OSS/MDS_with_ZFS_DMU it 
only talked about the OSS's, but it would really be nice to also have 
the MDS not dragging the kernel down with it when it crashes...

/Nikke
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