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

[E.S. Rosenberg]

What's wrong with plain ext4?
Or XFS, btrfs etc.

If you want good support on Windows you're stuck with windows filesystems
((ex)FAT, NTFS), though there are tools to mount extX filesystems on
windows they aren't all that stable as far as I know (though I haven't
looked at that for years so things may have changed).

There are decent OSS implementations of FAT/NTFS, but on them you would
have the problem that you can't preserve linux file properties (owner etc)
you would be able to get around that by creating tar archives....
In the end if compatibility with windows is needed and you aren't
interested in the hassle of getting a non-MS filesystem supported you are
limited to their filesystems.

Regards,
Eli

On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 8:33 PM, Michael Parchet <mparchet at sunrise.ch>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Thanks for your answer.
> I understand that lustre was not the right choice for my objective.
> I'm looking for a free and open source file system that would allow me to
> backup and read data on the long time  possibly compatible for linux, mac
> os 10.10 and windows 7
>
> What would you suggest to fulfill this objective ?
>
> Thanks for your support
>
> Best regards
>
> mparchet
>
>
>
> On 16. 08. 15 18:46, E.S. Rosenberg wrote:
>
> 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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