Re: [Lustre-discuss] Using NFS to mount lustre

2013-06-23 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
@lists.lustre.orgmailto:lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.orgmailto:lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org Subject: Re: [Lustre-discuss] Using NFS to mount lustre Thanks for the pointer. Just a quick question, will the performance suffer since we have to add another NFS layer to the lustre

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Using NFS to mount lustre

2013-06-23 Thread Nguyen Viet Cuong
Hi Rosenberg, On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 7:24 PM, E.S. Rosenberg esr+lus...@mail.hebrew.eduwrote: I may be wrong, but would there be any difference what so ever for the OP between using a lustre as a backend and just setting up an NFS server on a *nix box with some storage attached? Regards,

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Using NFS to mount lustre

2013-06-21 Thread Teik Hooi Beh
Hi Trevor, Thanks for the well define explanation. I see that you have a successful testing with Lustre cluster in ESXi. In my case I was more of hoping to use Lustre as an alternate storage for ESXi instead of expensive SAN. While I am aware and have a couple of successful deployment of ESX

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Using NFS to mount lustre

2013-06-21 Thread Parinay Kondekar
Lustre files can be re-exported using NFS . From the presentation by Oleg in Lug-2008 ( http://wiki.lustre.org/images/d/da/LUG08-Lustre-NFS.pdf ) Lustre is a normal local fs from NFS perspective Just add an entry to /etc/export *on lustre client*/NFS server give it try. Hope that helps.

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Using NFS to mount lustre

2013-06-21 Thread Teik Hooi Beh
Thanks for the pointer. Just a quick question, will the performance suffer since we have to add another NFS layer to the lustre client? Regards Beh On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Parinay Kondekar parinay_konde...@xyratex.com wrote: Lustre files can be re-exported using NFS . From the

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Using NFS to mount lustre

2013-06-21 Thread White, Cliff
@lists.lustre.orgmailto:lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org Subject: Re: [Lustre-discuss] Using NFS to mount lustre Thanks for the pointer. Just a quick question, will the performance suffer since we have to add another NFS layer to the lustre client? To be clear, you cannot export Lustre via NFS from Lustre servers. You re

[Lustre-discuss] Using NFS to mount lustre

2013-06-20 Thread Teik Hooi Beh
Hi, I have just recently started to test Lustre and even with a small 2 nodes deployment, I find the performance is outstanding on 1Gb networking. I was trying to search through the list for anything that could help me to mount using NFS protocol but could not find anything. Is that possible or

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Using NFS to mount lustre

2013-06-20 Thread Trevor Hargraves
Hi Beh, I have no experience with Lustre and NFS, but this past spring (are we out of it yet?) ;) I had the chance to learn a lot about Lustre as I chose it to be the subject of a term paper for the college I am attending. I decided an hands on approach was the best way and started out with 3