[Lustre-discuss] Future of LusterFS?

[Andreas Dilger]

On 2010-04-22, at 00:33, Janne Aho wrote:
> Today we have a storage system based on NFS, but we are really concerned 
> about redundancy and are at the brink to take the step to a cluster file 
> system as glusterfs, but we have got suggestions on that lusterfs would 
> have been the best option for us, but at the same time those who 
> "recommended" lusterfs has said that Oracle has pulled the plug and put 
> the resources into OCFS2.

Whoever told you that is mis-informed.  We still have our full team developing Lustre at Oracle, and are planning development into the future.

> If using lusterfs in a production environment, it would be good to know 
> that it won't be discontinued.
> 
> Will there be a long term future for lusterfs?

Yes.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Principal Engineer, Lustre Group
Oracle Corporation Canada Inc.