[Lustre-discuss] Userspace MDS?
Nikita Danilov
Nikita.Danilov at Sun.COM
Tue Apr 22 03:39:28 PDT 2008
Niklas Edmundsson writes:
> 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...
Yes, user space MDS is also in works.
>
> /Nikke
Nikita.
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