[Lustre-discuss] Using NFS to mount lustre

[Nguyen Viet Cuong]

Hi Rosenberg,

On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 7:24 PM, E.S. Rosenberg
<esr+lustre at mail.hebrew.edu>wrote:

> I may be wrong, but would there be any difference what so ever for the
> OP between using a lustre as a backend and just setting up an NFS
> server on a *nix box with some storage attached?
> Regards,
> ELi
>

There might be many reasons. For example, in a mixed environment where you
need NFS access to the data on a Lustre file system and the client's
platform might be not supported by Lustre. Or there might be too large
amount of data stored on the Lustre to make a transition.

By the way, topic author may consider of using (or waiting for) a pNFS
layout driver for Lustre to take the advantages of both NFS and parallel
file system.

http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-faibish-nfsv4-pnfs-lustre-layout/

http://www.nfsv4bat.org/Documents/ConnectAThon/2012/pNFS4Lustre-cthon-2012.pdf

Regards,
Cuong
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