[Lustre-discuss] CIFS

[Andreas Dilger]

On Jun 13, 2008  09:29 -0400, Wallior, Julien wrote:
> What about pCIFS? This used to be a project to access the MDS and OSS
> directly from windows.
> Is it still in development? Where can I download it?

pCIFS was a windows client that just allowed parallel access to Samba
servers running on Lustre clients.  It wasn't really a Windows Lustre
client, which we're finally starting on.  If you don't need extreme
performance for a single client, then having a single Samba server should
be fine.

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: lustre-discuss-bounces at lists.lustre.org [mailto:lustre-discuss-
> > bounces at lists.lustre.org] On Behalf Of Andreas Dilger
> > Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 12:51 AM
> > To: h.kalatas at remivac.com
> > Cc: lustre-discuss at clusterfs.com
> > Subject: Re: [Lustre-discuss] CIFS
> > 
> > On Jun 11, 2008  22:50 +0300, h.kalatas at remivac.com wrote:
> > > Can the windows clients access to the data under the lustre file
> system
> > > via CIFS?
> > 
> > Yes, it is possible to export Lustre to windows clients by running a
> > Samba server on a Lustre client.

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