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NFS4.1/pNFS needs support on the clients, which was historically a
problem as SL5 kernels were too old to have kernel level support.
SL6 kernels should be better for this.

Sam

On 5 November 2013 14:20, Ben Waugh <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Where does pNFS fit into all this?
>
> Ben
>
>
> On 05/11/13 14:11, james Adams wrote:
>>>
>>> Except that the POSIX bit of Ceph is considerably less polished than the
>>> rest of it, at the moment.
>>
>> Less polished, but POSIX compliant and fully functional (unless you need
>> multiple active meta-data servers).
>>
>>> Things to rule out: AFS.
>>
>> Agreed!
>>
>> HDFS is nowhere close to being POSIX compliant and is a bit of a pig.
>>
>> - James
>>
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