[Lustre-discuss] Future of LusterFS?

[Janne Aho]

On 22/04/10 08:56, Michael Schwartzkopff wrote:
On 22/04/10 08:53, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 22. April 2010 08:33:14 schrieb Janne Aho:
>> Hi,
>>
>> 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.
>> If using lusterfs in a production environment, it would be good to know
>> that it won't be discontinued.

On 22/04/10 08:53, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> Whoever told you that is mis-informed.  We still have our full team developing Lustre at Oracle, and are planning development into the future.

Andreas, thanks for the reply. :)


>> Will there be a long term future for lusterfs?
>> Or should we be looking for something else for a long term solution?
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your reply for my a bit cloudy question.

On 22/04/10 08:56, Michael Schwartzkopff wrote:


> for me Lustre is a very good option.
>
> But you also could consider a system composed from
> - corosync for the cluster communication
> - pacemaker as a cluster resource manager
> - DRBD for the replication of data between nodes in a cluster

Michael, thanks for the advice, we will take a big dive into this.

> and
> - NFS
> or
> - OCFS2 or GFS or ...
>
> especially the NFS option provides you with a high available NFS server on
> real cluster stack all managed by pacemaker.

We have had quite a deal of issues with our setup using NFS, one of the 
problems has been caused by poor file system selection thanks to the 
poor selection of file systems in CentOS/RedHat EL.


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