On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Matt W. Benjamin <m...@linuxbox.com> wrote:
> Hi Sage,
>
> We (Linux Box) have built and published a native FSAL for Ceph, which is 
> pretty advanced, and we've submitted the FSAL driver code upstream for review 
> Philippe Deniel.

Looking at the FSAL_CEPH, is this expecting the filesystem to be
mounted via the ceph kernel client?  Have you considered building out
an FSAL using libceph as opposed as to writing directly to OSDs
(assumedly via libRADOS or librbd).

>
> In addition, we're working on pNFS support in Ganesha and Ceph, and have a 
> prototype file-based pNFS layout driver for the FSAL that takes advantage of 
> Ceph OSDs for parallel IO.
>
> We're actively extending these efforts and there should be some publication 
> forthcoming.
>
> We have an external git repository here:
>
>    git://github.com/aemerson-linuxbox/ganesha.git
>
> We would really appreciate your feedback--and guidance on how to participate 
> in Ceph, we'd like to.
>
> Matt
>
> ----- "Sage Weil" <s...@newdream.net> wrote:
>
>> Has anyone looked at Genesha?
>>
>>       http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/nfs-ganesha/
>>
>> In principle it would probably be pretty straightforward to wire that
>> up
>> to libceph and avoid the kernel NFS server for reexporting ceph via
>> NFS...
>>
>> sage
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