Is there a guide for Lustre and NFS? At our university, we have a lustre server which also exports NFS data. We are using Centos, and I was wondering if there are any tuning and best practices guides available. TIA
Hello Mag, Some people on-list have tried it before, but it generally performs poorly. I believe HP contributed some optimizations, but the consensus as recently as the start of this year was that it will generally suck. Check the list archives for more information, I believe CIFS was a better performer. If you''re exporting to Linux clients, going with native Lustre clients is definitely a better option than using NFS (although you may not be doing so). cheers, Klaus On 8/5/08 7:25 PM, "Mag Gam" <magawake at gmail.com>did etch on stone tablets:> Is there a guide for Lustre and NFS? At our university, we have a > lustre server which also exports NFS data. We are using Centos, and I > was wondering if there are any tuning and best practices guides > available. > > TIA > _______________________________________________ > Lustre-discuss mailing list > Lustre-discuss at lists.lustre.org > http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
Thanks Klaus! Looks like I will go that route too...The performance is unreal. TIA On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Klaus Steden <klaus.steden at thomson.net> wrote:> > Hello Mag, > > Some people on-list have tried it before, but it generally performs poorly. > I believe HP contributed some optimizations, but the consensus as recently > as the start of this year was that it will generally suck. Check the list > archives for more information, I believe CIFS was a better performer. > > If you''re exporting to Linux clients, going with native Lustre clients is > definitely a better option than using NFS (although you may not be doing > so). > > cheers, > Klaus > > On 8/5/08 7:25 PM, "Mag Gam" <magawake at gmail.com>did etch on stone tablets: > >> Is there a guide for Lustre and NFS? At our university, we have a >> lustre server which also exports NFS data. We are using Centos, and I >> was wondering if there are any tuning and best practices guides >> available. >> >> TIA >> _______________________________________________ >> Lustre-discuss mailing list >> Lustre-discuss at lists.lustre.org >> http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss > >