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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana">Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana">I was reading about Lustre roadmap and future releases in the net.. I also read about Lustre and ZFS integration which was quite interesting.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana">After reading many web sites I am a little confused now!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana">Here are my questions:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><font size="2" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana">Integrating ZFS with Lustre: Does this mean that some features of ZFS are going to be integrated with Lustre? ( like optimized
checksums of ZFS etc )<o:p></o:p></span></font> </li></ol>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><font size="2" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><font size="2" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana">Which version of Lustre will have end-to-end data interity and which checksum algorithm will be used (if not CRC32)?<o:p></o:p></span></font>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><font size="2" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana">(<i><font color="#333399"><span style="color:#333399;font-style:italic">I read in one document written by Peter Bojanic which said
Lustre+ZFS = End-to-End Data Integrity</span></font></i>) </span></font><i><font size="1" color="#333399" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:
Verdana;color:#333399;font-style:italic">So is it ver. 3.0 and above?</span></font></i><font size="2" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><font size="2" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana">I read in wikipedia under ZFS integration “</span></font><font size="2" face="Verdana"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana">Lustre
3.0 will allow users to choose between ZFS and ldiskfs as back-end storage”.</span></font><font size="2" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana"><o:p></o:p></span></font>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><font size="2" face="Verdana"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana">Why ZFS and ldiskfs are treated separately here even after integration here? Once integrated it is just Lustre 3.0 isn’t
it?</span></font><font size="2" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Verdana"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Verdana">I would be glad to hear the answers from you which may solve my queries and confusion
</span></font><font size="2" face="Wingdings"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings">J</span></font><font size="2" face="Verdana"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Verdana"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Verdana">Thanking you in advance….<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Verdana"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Verdana">Regards</span></font><font size="2" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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