From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 29 21:23:26 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D5AF16A41F for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 21:23:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cel@citi.umich.edu) Received: from citi.umich.edu (citi.umich.edu [141.211.133.111]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F7DC43D46 for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 21:23:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cel@citi.umich.edu) Received: from [141.211.133.33] (dexter.citi.umich.edu [141.211.133.33]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by citi.umich.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF5861BB70; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 16:23:24 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <438CC6CC.8090303@citi.umich.edu> Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 16:23:24 -0500 From: Chuck Lever Organization: Network Appliance, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.4.1 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mike References: <438C5F80.8050800@citi.umich.edu> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------080908020308010906010001" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Possible way to distribute NFS? X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: cel@citi.umich.edu List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 21:23:26 -0000 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------080908020308010906010001 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit mike wrote: > I did find that. > > But isn't that really paired with NFSv4? That's how I got into all the > NFSv4 information about it's future plans for > clustering/redundancy/whatever was when I Googled for that. > > Do you have some specific URLs that might help? Is this > production-ready/usable, or just something to talk about over coffee? pNFS is planned to be part of a minor revision of NFSv4. that means something like NFSv4.1 or NFSv4.2. there is nothing production ready right now, but there is significant industry momentum behind this, and several prototypes already exist. most of the design is happening within the IETF (mailing lists and f2f meetings), and i'm not especially close to the dialog. > On 11/29/05, Chuck Lever wrote: > >>mike- >> >>you want pNFS. this is something that is currently being worked out by >>the IETF, various NFS vendors, and members of the open source community. >> google for pNFS or Parallel NFS. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-fs@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-fs > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-fs-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --------------080908020308010906010001--