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Lustre is a novel storage and filesystem architecture and implementation suitable for very large clusters. It is a next-generation cluster filesystem that is currently running on clusters that have tens of thousands of nodes, petabytes of storage, and move hundreds of GB/sec.
Author:
clusterfs team <info (at) clusterfs (dot) com>
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Homepage:
http://lustre.org/
Tar/GZ:
http://www.clusterfs.com/[..]downloads/public/Lustre/v1.4/Production/
Changelog:
http://www.clusterfs.com/changelog-1.4.html
Purchase:
http://www.clusterfs.com/services.html
Bug tracker:
http://bugzilla.lustre.org/
Mailing list archive:
http://wiki.lustre.org/index.php?title=Mailing_Lists
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Lustre is fully GPL
by Andreas Dilger - Jun 22nd 2007 11:03:04
Please note that the comments here about Lustre not being freely available
are quite out-of-date. The most recent version of Lustre has been freely
available for immediate download for the past 2 years, since the 1.4.0
release.
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Not really usable
by Jean-Marc Coursimault - Jan 17th 2005 03:10:22
I was thrilled at first to see this filesystem, but
- They are not releasing the 1.4 as the announcement says, but the
1.04
- having a look at the changelog since the 1.0.4 version is sobering : the
1.0.4 still has single point of failure modes and failure is not
transparent to the apps.
I dont' see the point of playing with such an outdated release ? The bugs
we'll find will be fixed or long outdated, they won't get any useful input,
and our data won't be safe...
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>1.0 still not freely available
by Jan Bruvoll - May 15th 2004 06:59:42
Anybody have any inside on when clusterfs are going to release the newest
distributions freely?
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Re: >1.0 still not freely available
by imipak - Dec 27th 2004 11:11:25
> Anybody have any inside on when
> clusterfs are going to release the
> newest distributions freely?
From the looks of it, never. From their perspective, that's not too bad a
deal - they make the best networked filesystem for high-performance stuff,
so they've cornered that market. On the other hand, I don't see how they
could possibly keep pace with the development of the Linux kernel and any
related network drivers and code. There are simply too many projects and
too many components in each, for any closed-source team.
They've ported Lustre to OS-X and the PowerPC. They've doubled the number
of nodes it'll scale to. They've put in a huge amout of effort. And who,
exactly, is ever going to know about it, if it's never promoted or included
in any distribution? Who, exactly, is going to buy such high-end software
from a company nobody has ever heard of? Well, other than the occasional
research lab. That's going to pay their bills? I'm amazed they've not
starved to death, waiting for the next sale.
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Re: >1.0 still not freely available
by Damjan - Dec 27th 2004 17:37:57
> From the looks of it, never.
Well their FAQ says this:
When will the next publicly-available release be?
The next public release, from the 1.2.x series, will be made some time in
February 2005. It will likely be a quite modern version -- perhaps Lustre
1.2.4, which was released in July 2004.
Maybe it's possible to get the source code from someone that has GPL
licensed source code?!?
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Re: >1.0 still not freely available
by imipak - Dec 30th 2004 09:23:17
> (snip)
> The next public release, from the 1.2.x
> series, will be made some time in
> February 2005. It will likely be a quite
> modern version -- perhaps Lustre 1.2.4,
> which was released in July 2004.
>
> Maybe it's possible to get the source
> code from someone that has GPL licensed
> source code?!?
I'm not going to hold my breath - it costs $1,500 per site (if I
understand their pricing scheme correctly) which would put it out of the
range of anyone who just wanted to share the code. (Tech support calls are
also fairly steep, at $300 per hour.)
From the perspective of the company selling Lustre, this is probably not a
bad way to work things. Have the code "free", but just a little too pricey
to escape into the wild. I'm not going to criticise them for figuring out a
way to make the GPL earn them money.
Lustre 1.2.4 is only going to be of use if they "forward port" it to a
current kernel, otherwise what would be the use of it? It sounds as though
it'll be made "public" around the time Linux 2.6.11 or 2.6.12 will be out.
Many users may be using an out-of-the-box distribution, such as Fedora, and
therefore be at around Linux 2.6.9. Any public release of Lustre will have
to work on kernels in this range, if there is to be any demand for it.
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1.2.4 now freely available
by Cluster File Systems - Feb 28th 2005 00:17:32
> Lustre 1.2.4 is only going to be of use
> if they "forward port" it to a current
> kernel, otherwise what would be the use
> of it? It sounds as though it'll be made
> "public" around the time Linux 2.6.11 or
> 2.6.12 will be out. Many users may be
> using an out-of-the-box distribution,
> such as Fedora, and therefore be at
> around Linux 2.6.9. Any public release
> of Lustre will have to work on kernels
> in this range, if there is to be any
> demand for it.
Although we have not yet released new binary packages, we have included
our latest supported kernel patches (for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3's
2.4.21-based kernel, and SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9's 2.6.5-based
kernel) in today's public release of Lustre 1.2.4. We'll make new binary
RPMs available shortly, but decided not to release the old ones from July,
which are based on vendor kernels with now-known security vulnerabilities.
In the meantime, please feel free to compile your own.
We don't currently support kernel.org 2.6 kernels, both because our
customers don't run them, and they don't seem very stable (the two are
probably quite related). There are people who maintain and occasionally
release new Lustre patches for kernel.org kernels, however; you'll find
talk of it in the lustre-discuss archives.
> I'm not going to hold my breath - it
> costs $1,500 per site (if I understand
> their pricing scheme correctly) which
> would put it out of the range of anyone
> who just wanted to share the code. (Tech
> support calls are also fairly steep, at
> $300 per hour.)
Just for the record, we typically do not charge by the hour for support.
We sell flat-rate annual support agreements, the cost of which is based on
the size and complexity of the deployment.
One of our goals in building Lustre is to produce an excellent cluster
file system for the Linux community, and so we will continue to make
regular releases to the general public. But we also want to continue to
improve Lustre and support our customers, which means we need to stay in
business. It doesn't do anyone any good if we close up shop, and send our
dozens of full-time Lustre developers to find new jobs.
Impatient organizations who need the latest features and fixes, or timely
and guaranteed support, can pay for access to the newest releases. Others
can wait, and be assured that they will eventually get the code that
today's customers are paying for. There's no sinister agenda, no attempt
to "take Lustre proprietary", just a balancing act. Like it or not, it's
the model that seems to be working for us.
Thank you for your interest in Lustre -- I hope you enjoy Lustre 1.2.4!
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