[Gluster-devel] pNFS server for FreeBSD using GlusterFS

[Niels de Vos]

On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 07:25:00PM -0700, Joe Julian wrote:
> 
> 
> On 04/20/2016 07:23 PM, 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? There will
> >lot of context switches
> >between kernel space and user space which may effect the metadata
> >performance.
> >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
> 
> There's also potential memory deadlocks which is why we stopped doing that
> in the first place.

Note that Rick is running in FreeBSD and FUSE and their knsfd might not
be affected with that.

I think it's pretty cool to see FreeBSD with a pNFS server that uses
Gluster :)

Niels
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