[CentOS] who uses Lustre in production with virtual machines?

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Wed Aug 4 12:48:06 UTC 2010


John R Pierce wrote:
>   On 08/03/10 11:31 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote:
>> But then is ZFS a Cluster filesystem at all like GFS2/OCFS? Haven't
>> studied that angle as yet.
> 
> its not.  and, afaik, the linux implementation of ZFS is not very well 
> supported, I certainly wouldn't commit to a project relying on it 
> without a LOT of testing.   ZFS is very stable on Solaris, and I 
> understand its working quite well with FreeBSD
> 
> Supposedly the new btfs for linux will be the choice.  i'll remain 
> skeptical of that until its proven itself in varied production 
> environments by others.

I thought there was a small limit on the number of hard links in btfs - that 
might make it unsuitable for general purpose use.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com



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