[Gluster-devel] pNFS server for FreeBSD using GlusterFS

Jiffin Tony Thottan jthottan at redhat.com
Mon Apr 25 07:10:12 UTC 2016


CCing ganesha list

On 22/04/16 04:18, Rick Macklem wrote:
> Jiffin Tony Thottan wrote:
>>
>> On 21/04/16 04:43, Rick Macklem wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Just to let you know, I did find the email responses to my
>>> queries some months ago helpful and I now have a pNFS server
>>> for FreeBSD using the GlusterFS port at the alpha test stage.
>>> So far I have not made any changes to GlusterFS except the little
>>> poll() patch that was already discussed on this list last December.
>>>
>>> Anyhow, if anyone is interested in taking a look at this,
>>> I have a primitive document at:
>>>     http://people.freebsd.org/~rmacklem/pnfs-setup.txt
>>> that will hopefully give you a starting point.
>>>
>>> Thanks to everyone that helped via email a few months ago, rick
>> Hi Rick,
>>
>> Awesome some work man. You have cracked Flexfile layout for gluster volume.
>>
>> I still wondering why you picked knfs instead of nfs-ganesha?
> I don't believe that ganesha will be ported to FreeBSD any time soon. If it

I believe the support is already there. CCing ganesha list to confirm 
the same.

> is ported, that would be an alternative for FreeBSD users to consider.
> (I work on the kernel nfsd as a hobby, so I probably wouldn't do this myself.)
>
>> There will
>> lot of context switches
>> between kernel space and user space which may effect the metadata
>> performance.
> Yes, I do see a lot of context switches.
>
> rick
>
>> I still remembering the discussion[1] in which I mentioned to use
>> ganesha server as MDS.
>> And usually gluster volume won't export using knfs.
>>
>> --
>> Jiffin
>>
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