[PVFS-users] Interoperability

[Nathan Poznick]

Thus spake Bill Pappas:
> I'm totally new to pvfs.  I want to know what interoperability issues I
> may run into.  Has anyone run this on RedHAt AS 2.1 or 3.0 i32 or i64? 
> Or on Suse Ent. 8 or 9?  I'm just looking for general comments on your
> experiences.   What is difficult to deploy on the platforms, or is pvfs
> flexible enough for any Linux 2.4 kernel.
> Finally, what has (if any) been your experience with the 2.6 kernel?

Interoperability between different distributions should be fine, however
you won't be able to use PVFS1 in a mixed ia32 / ia64 environment.  The
recent Redhat kernels will likely give you the most trouble with the
PVFS1 kernel module, but most of those issues should be sorted out with
the next release.  There is no PVFS1 kernel module for 2.6.x kernels.

You might want to take a look at PVFS2 if you're just getting started.
PVFS2 interoperates between different platforms (ia32/ia64) as well as
between platforms with different endianness.  It also has a 2.6 kernel
module (but no 2.4 kernel module yet).

-- 
Nathan Poznick <poznick at conwaycorp.net>

Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness. - Edward G.
Bulwer-Lytton

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