I have become aware of orangefs only as a result of its integration with the
latest kernel release.
I have been tracking ceph for a long time, but have not found it to be very
user friendly: difficult to manage and difficult to make work in a robust way.
Orangefs seems to provide some similar functionality, and my initial
experiments yesterday seemed to confirm usability.
The problem that I find is that the latest release (2.9.3) does not seem to
contain kernel module code that will build with current kernels (my attempts
failed, and references are made to 2.6.x series, and stuff has changed, I
think, at 4.0).
This shouldn't matter with 4.6, because orangefs is included by Linus. However
when trying to mount an orangefs share the mount command hangs, and dmesg shows
that the kernel is complaining that userspace declares version 20903, but
20904 is required.
(those numbers from memory of yesterday, and not on the screen in front of me
now, but I'm sure that I have not misremembered).
It looks like we might need a 2.9.4 release? I tried compiling the svn version,
but couldn't overcome the lack of an 'autogen.sh' to do the right autotools
suff to make a working 'configure'.
I hope someone can help me put the 4.6 kernel orangefs to the test.
Thank you in anticipation.
David
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