[Pvfs2-developers] FUSE for PVFS

[Walter B. Ligon III]

Awesome!

Walt

John Chandy wrote:
> To all,
> 
> If there is any interest in running non-linux clients on PVFS, we  have 
> a preliminary release of pvfs2fuse which is a FUSE  implementation of a 
> PVFS filesystem.  It allows any OS that supports  FUSE to mount a PVFS 
> filesystem.  Presently, this includes Linux,  FreeBSD, and MacOSX.
> 
> The code is a set of patches to pvfs-2.6.3 and is available at http:// 
> snsl.engr.uconn.edu/downloads/pvfs2fuse.html.
> 
> I've done limited testing on Linux 2.6.9 and MacOSX 10.4.9 but it  
> should work on other versions and FreeBSD as well.
> 
> After doing some testing with a 6-node Linux cluster, pvfs2fuse on  
> Linux performance is comparable to the PVFS built-in client.  Iozone  
> shows the PVFS client topping out at ~100 MB/s and pvfs2fuse topping  
> out at ~75 MBs for large files but for small files and small record  
> sizes pvfs2fuse does about 30% better.  We have yet to do any  analysis 
> of pvfs2fuse performance to see where the bottlenecks are.
> 
> John Chandy
> Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
> University of Connecticut
> 
> 
> 
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-- 
Dr. Walter B. Ligon III
Associate Professor
ECE Department
Clemson University