[Lustre-discuss] Future of LusterFS?

[Kevin Van Maren]

If you read the presentation, at 
http://wiki.lustre.org/images/6/6f/LUG_Keynote_Presentation-Bojanic-100415.pdf
it does say that Lustre 2 will be supported on qualified configurations 
-- from Oracle and others.

Kevin


Lundgren, Andrew wrote:
> 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.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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
> --
> Andreas Dilger
> Principal Engineer, Lustre Group
> Oracle Corporation Canada Inc.
>
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