Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 12:09:42 -0500 From: Chris BeHanna <chris@behanna.org> To: FreeBSD FS <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: RFC: using ceph as a backend for an NFSv4.1 pNFS server Message-ID: <749215C3-D515-4B38-94B3-97AF152EE5E8@behanna.org> In-Reply-To: <33C0F291-0DA4-4658-B249-0B0E1F633832@FreeBSD.org> References: <507714298.1684844.1398541651089.JavaMail.root@uoguelph.ca> <535E7D17.6000303@ster.kuleuven.be> <A833812C-A188-4023-B9AB-0A0F7FAD5C7F@behanna.org> <33C0F291-0DA4-4658-B249-0B0E1F633832@FreeBSD.org>
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On Apr 28, 2014, at 12:05 PM, Edward Tomasz Napiera=B3a = <trasz@freebsd.org> wrote: > Wiadomo=B6=E6 napisana przez Chris BeHanna w dniu 28 kwi 2014, o godz. = 18:24: >> On Apr 28, 2014, at 11:08 AM, Bram Vandoren = <bram.vandoren@ster.kuleuven.be> wrote: >>=20 >>> The amount of people waiting for yet another method to access their = cluster file system is probably limited. >>=20 >> LANL, LLNL, Sandia, every major oil & gas exploration company, = large weather simulation centers, financial modelers, and let us not = forget movie and TV CGI studios. >>=20 >> Yup, pretty limited. :-) >>=20 >> pNFS is pretty much *the* standard going forward for accessing = large object-based (OSD) storage volumes. At least it was when I made a = living in that space. >=20 > Does that mean the OSD - as in, the SCSI standard - is finally = starting to gain some traction? There have been OSD-based commercial file systems in production = for more than ten years now, in all of the fields I mentioned above. How closely this tracks with the standard is something I would = have to leave to someone else to address. -- Chris BeHanna chris@behanna.org
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