Hi All, On behalf of the Nexenta Team, I'd like to announce the very first distribution with pNFS support. NCP3-pNFS experimental release is a distribution that uses the pNFS code drop by the opensolaris team[1]. This build is based on b121 of opensolaris.
Download from: http://www.nexenta.org/projects/site/wiki/DownloadExperimental Setup Instructions: http://www.nexenta.org/projects/site/wiki/PNFS The Nexenta project is excited with this new technology. Being on the forefront of storage distributions, we will be making available more builds in the near future, and finally integrate the technology into the NCP mainline. You can checkout the latest sources via hg clone http://hg.nexenta.org/pnfs-gate pNFS --- pNFS improves on the well known NFS protocol by allowing data access from multiple machines to improve access time and bandwidth. From official site [0]: "Parallel NFS (pNFS) is a part of the NFS v4.1 standard that allows clients to access storage devices directly and in parallel. The pNFS architecture eliminates the scalability and performance issues associated with NFS servers in deployment today. This is achieved by the separation of data and metadata, and moving the metadata server out of the data path. "pNFS is important because it brings together the benefits of parallel I/O with the benefits of the ubiquitous standard for network file systems (NFS). This will allow users to experience increased performance and scalability in their storage infrastructure with the added assurance that their investment is safe and their ability to choose best-of-breed solutions remains intact." Links --- [0] Information on the pNFS standard, and implementations: http://www.pnfs.com/ [1] Opensolaris implementaion of pNFS http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+nfsv41/ [2] Nexenta project tracking the pNFS gate http://www.nexenta.org/projects/pnfs-gate [3] Questions, Help and Support http://www.nexenta.org/projects/site/boards [4] IRC #nexenta on freenode. Note: This is an _experimental_ build, and as such is not ready for production, and you can report issues on the project site [2]. We welcome your contributions to the project. Spread the word! Thanks, The Nexenta Team