[Lustre-discuss] exporting lustre over nfs to osx

[Andreas Dilger]

On Apr 21, 2009  15:59 -0400, Michael Di Domenico wrote:
> Is it possible to mount a lustre file system that's being exported via
> nfs, on a Mac OSX workstation?

Yes, one of our NFS-on-Lustre developers tests this configuration.
There were a number of bugs fixed in the OS/X NFS stack, I don't
know the details of which OS/X release they were in.  He is currently
on vacation, hopefully he'll reply when he gets back.

> When I try it here on my testbed it mounts fine, but sending any data
> causes an input/output error and does not create the file at all.
> 
> Can anyone point me to some documentation that shows any quirks on the
> implementation that I might have missed?

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