> > My personal guess (and probably more than a few others) is that Sun is > interested in taking the clustering functionality that > underlies Lustre > and integrating it with ZFS for a future version of Solaris. > Even if > Sun stops supporting Lustre development on Linux, its GPL open source, > undoubtedly someone else will pick up the slack... > That could be. I have spoken with some of the lead cluster fs people (now Sun) about it. For the next few revs at least it will continue as a Linux product. ZFS will be put underneath lustre rather than ext3. -- Andrew