[lustre-discuss] Lustre on mac os 10.10 and windows 7

[E.S. Rosenberg]

I am puzzled, why would you format an external harddisk as lustre? You
realize lustre is not really aimed at being a single disk filesystem?

Lustre is supposed to be spread over a set of disks (and servers) where you
have disks/servers specifically in charge of storing objects and
disks/servers in charge of maintaining the metadata which actually tells
you what those objects are...

Even if you would get fuse lustre support running you would be using it to
mount a filesystem being served by one or more remote hosts and not to
mount a single external disk, the fuse driver would be a client driver and
not the whole server package which is capable of understanding the disk
provided it has the metadata.

(Theoretically you should be able to mount the disk as ext4 or ZFS
depending on the backend filesystem you chose, but even then lacking the
metadata objects are just objects without descriptive names and may lack
parts that were striped to other disks afaik).

What is the goal you are trying to accomplish (beyond mounting your
external disk)?

Regards,
Eli

On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 8:19 PM, Michael Parchet <mparchet at sunrise.ch>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have downlouded Fuse for osx but My wd Element portable that I formated
> with the Lustre file system. but osx 10.10 could don't read my disk.
>
> Could you help me please ?
>
> Thanks for your support
>
> Best regards
>
> mparchet
>
>
> Le 05/08/15 15:41, Stu Midgley a écrit :
>
> In some sense their has already been a port of Lustre to macosx and
>> windows.  I ported it using FUSE about 10years ago, using liblustre.
>> It was about a 10min exercise...
>>
>> I have absolutely no idea where liblustre is at now...
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 8:36 PM, Michaël Parchet <mparchet at sunrise.ch>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Is it technically  possible to developp an implementation for lustre for
>>> mac
>>> and windows ?
>>>
>>> Thanks for your answer
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>>
>>> mparchet
>>>
>>> Le 05. 08. 15 14:17, Ben Evans a écrit :
>>>
>>> Lustre is a linux-only project.  Only linux can act as a client and a
>>>> server for Lustre.
>>>>
>>>> -Ben Evans
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: lustre-discuss [mailto:lustre-discuss-bounces at lists.lustre.org]
>>>> On
>>>> Behalf Of Michaël Parchet
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2015 6:16 AM
>>>> To: lustre-discuss at lists.lustre.org
>>>> Subject: [lustre-discuss] Lustre on mac os 10.10 and windows 7
>>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I have formated a western digital Element hard drive with the lustre
>>>> format. The drive have the very good performance but mac os 10.10
>>>> couldn't
>>>> read it
>>>>
>>>> When I look the partition type with gparted I get ext4 but even install
>>>> osxfuse My lustre drive isen't recognized by mac os x
>>>>
>>>> Why ?
>>>>
>>>> Could windows 7 read the lustre drive ?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for your support
>>>>
>>>> Best regareds
>>>>
>>>> mparchet
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