[Lustre-discuss] NFS and lustre

Mag Gam magawake at gmail.com
Wed Aug 6 18:53:45 PDT 2008


Thanks Klaus!

Looks like I will go that route too...The performance is unreal.

TIA


On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Klaus Steden <klaus.steden at thomson.net> wrote:
>
> Hello Mag,
>
> Some people on-list have tried it before, but it generally performs poorly.
> I believe HP contributed some optimizations, but the consensus as recently
> as the start of this year was that it will generally suck. Check the list
> archives for more information, I believe CIFS was a better performer.
>
> If you're exporting to Linux clients, going with native Lustre clients is
> definitely a better option than using NFS (although you may not be doing
> so).
>
> cheers,
> Klaus
>
> On 8/5/08 7:25 PM, "Mag Gam" <magawake at gmail.com>did etch on stone tablets:
>
>> Is there a guide for Lustre and NFS? At our university, we have a
>> lustre server which also exports NFS data. We are using Centos, and I
>> was wondering if there are any tuning and best practices guides
>> available.
>>
>> TIA
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