[gpfsug-discuss] what is mmnfs under the hood

Simon Thompson (IT Research Support) S.J.Thompson at bham.ac.uk
Sun Aug 6 11:54:17 BST 2017


What do you mean by cannot use mmsmb and cannot use Ganesha? Do you functionally you are not allowed to or they are not working for you?

If it's the latter, then this should be resolvable. If you are under active maintenance you could try raising a ticket with IBM, though basic implementation is not really a support issue and so you may be better engaging a business partner or integrator to help you out.

Simon 
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I have read this atricle:
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/STXKQY_4.2.0/com.ibm.spectrum.scale.v4r2.adv.doc/bl1adv_ces_migrationcnfstoces.htm

So, in a shortcut, CNFS cannot be used when sharing via CES.
I cannot use ganesha NFS.

Is it possible to share a cluster via SMB and NFS without using CES ?
the nfs will be expored via CNFS but what about SMB ? i cannot use
mmsmb..


On Sun, Aug 6, 2017 at 12:42 PM, Ilan Schwarts <ilan84 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have gpfs (spectrum scale 4.2.2.0) and I wish to create NFS exports,
> I cannot use ganesha NFS.
> How do I make NFS exports ? just editing all nodes /etc/exports is enough ?
> I should i use the CNFS as described here:
> https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/STXKQY_4.2.2/com.ibm.spectrum.scale.v4r22.doc/bl1adv_cnfssetup.htm
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> On Sun, Aug 6, 2017 at 12:10 PM, Simon Thompson (IT Research Support)
> <S.J.Thompson at bham.ac.uk> wrote:
>> Under the hood, the NFS services are provided by IBM supplied Ganesha rpms. It's then fully supported by IBM, e.g. the GPFS VFS later to handle locking, ACLs, quota etc...
>>
>> Note it's different from using the cnfs support in Spectrum Scale which uses Kernel NFS AFAIK. Using user space Ganesha means they have control of the NFS stack, so if something needs patching/fixing, then can roll out new Ganesha rpms rather than having to get (e.g.) RedHat to incorporate something into kernel NFS.
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>> Mmnfs is a wrapper round the config of Ganesha using CCR to distribute the config to the nodes.
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>> Simon
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>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I see IBM spectrumscale configure the NFS via command: mmnfs
>>
>> Is the command mmnfs is a  wrapper on top of the normal kernel NFS
>> (Kernel VFS) ?
>> Is it a wrapper on top of ganesha NFS ?
>> Or it is NFS implemented by SpectrumScale team ?
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>> Thanks
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