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From: Brent Welch <welch.brent@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 05:25:49 +0000
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Subject: Re: RFC: using ceph as a backend for an NFSv4.1 pNFS server
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Rick - you can reach out to the folks at Panasas, which is a FreeBSD shop
with its own proprietary cluster file system that supports pNFS (via a
NFS-Ganesha layer) and its own pNFS pre-cursor.  That probably doesn't meet
your needs exactly, but technically it is a dead-on match for what you are
thinking about.  Try Celeste Baranski, cbaranski@panasas.com

On Mon Apr 28 2014 at 9:29:45 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 08:37:19PM -0400, Rick Macklem wrote:
> >   2 - Block/volume, where the client uses iSCSI to read/write blocks for
> >       the file's data.
>
> There is nothing iSCSI specific in the block layout spec, even if that
> seems to be the reference implementation.  Any block device that allows
> multiple initiators will do.
>
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