On: FreeBSD gets pNFS support

[kev009]

It will be fairly amusing to see this in a Billions dollar product line like NetApp or Dell EMC Isilon.

I can't find any photos of Rick Macklem's setup but it was developed in a fairly.. steampunk fashion.. on several obsolete i386 laptops with <4GB RAM.

[jim00338811 → kev009]

Panasas, who open sources pNFS, is a serious scale company competitive with Isilon and NetApp

https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2135264,00.asp

https://www.panasas.com/

[GalacticDomin8r → jim00338811]

Since Panasas contributes a fair amount to FreeBSD, perhaps they are happy as well.

eg https://people.freebsd.org/~rpokala/2017-03-24.nvdimm.txt

[loeg → GalacticDomin8r]

Ravi never actually got around to committing that NVDIMM work :-(.

[pinewurst → kev009]

I believe NetApp has had shipping pNFS support in ONTAP for quite some time now. I don’t know how many active users though.

[parvenu74 → kev009]

Why the hate? Just because FreeBSD supports the idea of making a commercial product from the code isn't a reason bag on Rick.

[ComputerGuru → parvenu74]

I didn’t detect any hint of hate in the OP’s comment, more appreciation and irony.

[loeg → kev009]

Isilon hasn't used the FreeBSD nfsd since 2014 (OneFS 7.2). (And prior to that, it was a heavily modified version.)