[gpfsug-discuss] CNFS

[Orlando Richards]

Hi Chris,

Bristol use CNFS - I've cc'd Bob (who might not be on the gpfsug-discuss 
list).

For what it's worth - we use CTDB for NFS as well as CIFS, and are happy 
enough with it, but we've not compared it to CNFS in anger.

--
Orlando

On 03/12/12 17:19, McLaughlin, Sandra M wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> I wasn’t in Liverpool last week – but I am currently using CNFS on top
> of GPFS. It seems to work OK, but I am not exactly pushing it, and I
> have not rigorously tested the failover (I am only using it for a couple
> of test scratch areas at the moment). It was very easy to setup (except
> that since we do not run the DNS here at AZ, we couldn’t get a round
> robin DNS entry setup, so we have to explicitly point clients at one of
> the servers).
>
> When I asked a couple of questions about CNFS at the GPFS users meeting
> at Daresbury earlier this year, there were people who were using it, but
> it seemed to me that the general consensus was that people preferred
> using CTDB to get highly-available NFS and CIFS serving. I am just about
> to take delivery of a new V7000 and new NSDs, so I plan to try out CTDB
> with this.
>
> Regards, Sandra.
>
> *Sandra McLaughlin*
>
> Scientific Computing Specialist
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> [mailto:gpfsug-discuss-bounces at gpfsug.org] *On Behalf Of *Edsall,
> Christopher J.
> *Sent:* 03 December 2012 16:43
> *To:* gpfsug-discuss at gpfsug.org
> *Subject:* [gpfsug-discuss] CNFS
>
> Hi All,
>
> It was good to meet those of you who made it to the meeting in Liverpool
> last week.
>
> Something I should have asked there but forgot is: has anyone tried CNFS
> on top of GPFS?
>
> (http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/redp4400.html )
>
> If so, what are your thoughts?
>
> Cheers,
>
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