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Date:      Tue, 24 Apr 2018 17:46:57 +0200
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Karli_Sj=F6berg?= <karli@inparadise.se>
To:        Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca>, "freebsd-fs@freebsd.org" <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: pNFS server completed
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Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph=2Eca> skrev: (24 april 2018 14:36:24 CEST)
>Karli Sj=C3=B6berg wrote:
>[stuff snipped]
>>OK, I think I understand, thank you for the explanation!
>>
>>So you could say that this enhancement is more about the performance
>>benifit of scaling out, rather than resiliance/tolerance?
>Yes, although without the DS mirroring (which is optional and doesn't
>have to
>be done), you would go from one SPOF to N SPOFs=2E
>
>To be honest, this pNFS service will not be useful for many=2E Only
>people who
>need to scale out beyond the limits of one NFS server and find it more
>convenient
>that creating a second NFS server=2E
>
>Improving resiliance/tolerance for an NFS server is a separate topic
>(and would
>apply to the MDS of this pNFS service as well)=2E
>I don't have any expertise w=2Er=2Et=2E this, but something like HA (whic=
h I
>just learned
>about from the email thread) might be appropriate=2E If you can build a
>storage
>subsystem with internal redundancy (raid at the drive level) and then
>have
>two servers "attached" to the storage subsystem so that it can fail
>over
>from the 1st to 2nd server, that would be a good start=2E
>With that, you would just need to have something that would tell the
>nfs
>servers to start/stop when the HA failover happens, I think?
>This is a really interesting problem, but not one for me=2E Of course if
>someone
>gets to the point where it needs an nfsd tweak to make the fail over
>work, I
>could help with that=2E
>
>Thanks for your interest, rick

And thank you for working on this!

/K


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