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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">A bit dated but should give a reasonable overview:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="https://wiki.lustre.org/images/d/da/LUG08-Lustre-NFS.pdf">https://wiki.lustre.org/images/d/da/LUG08-Lustre-NFS.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">I would prefer NFSv4 over v3.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Expect that NFS performance will be less than Lustre native.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Nick dan <nickdan2999@gmail.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 5:14 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>"Tancheff, Shaun" <shaun.tancheff@hpe.com>, "lustre-discuss-request@lists.lustre.org" <lustre-discuss-request@lists.lustre.org>, "lustre-discuss-owner@lists.lustre.org" <lustre-discuss-owner@lists.lustre.org>, "lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org" <lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [lustre-discuss] Lustre kernel space or user space<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Can you explain in detail how Lustre can be used with NFS? Do you mean that the storage will be lustre and client will be mounted with NFS? Will this affect the performance?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks and regards<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Nick<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, 3 May 2023 at 14:30, Tancheff, Shaun <<a href="mailto:shaun.tancheff@hpe.com">shaun.tancheff@hpe.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Lustre is an in-kernel file system.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">I am not aware of a FUSE mountable Lustre, it would be very likely to have an unacceptable performance profile.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">There is also method to re-export as an NFS share to enable NFS clients access to data stored on Lustre, an example use case is when client OS does
not support Lustre but does support NFS.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From:
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">lustre-discuss <<a href="mailto:lustre-discuss-bounces@lists.lustre.org" target="_blank">lustre-discuss-bounces@lists.lustre.org</a>> on behalf of Nick dan via lustre-discuss <<a href="mailto:lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org" target="_blank">lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org</a>><br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>Nick dan <<a href="mailto:nickdan2999@gmail.com" target="_blank">nickdan2999@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 2:04 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>"<a href="mailto:lustre-discuss-owner@lists.lustre.org" target="_blank">lustre-discuss-owner@lists.lustre.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:lustre-discuss-owner@lists.lustre.org" target="_blank">lustre-discuss-owner@lists.lustre.org</a>>, "<a href="mailto:lustre-discuss-request@lists.lustre.org" target="_blank">lustre-discuss-request@lists.lustre.org</a>"
<<a href="mailto:lustre-discuss-request@lists.lustre.org" target="_blank">lustre-discuss-request@lists.lustre.org</a>>, "<a href="mailto:lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org" target="_blank">lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org" target="_blank">lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[lustre-discuss] Lustre kernel space or user space</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Hi<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">I had a few questions.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">1. Is lustre storage and client mounted in kernel space or user space?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">2. Can lustre be mounted with fuse? What is the use of mounting lustre with fuse?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Thanks and regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Nick<o:p></o:p></p>
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