[Lustre-discuss] Future of LusterFS?
Lundgren, Andrew
Andrew.Lundgren at Level3.com
Thu Apr 22 08:32:26 PDT 2010
Make sure you read and understand the Lustre 2.0 release notes before you buy. There seemed to be some specifics in there about using Oracle hardware.
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From: lustre-discuss-bounces at lists.lustre.org [mailto:lustre-discuss-bounces at lists.lustre.org] On Behalf Of Andreas Dilger
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 12:53 AM
To: Janne Aho
Cc: lusterfs
Subject: Re: [Lustre-discuss] Future of LusterFS?
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.
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