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<pre wrap="">Thanks for your feedback, I am really thinking in now take a look in these tools, but not now for two main reasons:
1) I really need to use the traditional nfs therefore must use pnfs in performance tests, and this all within an international collaboration (OSG -
Sience Open Grid). I can not ask for that change to another tool for me to validate my this.
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I personally view OpenVZ as a technology to host application-centric
VEs and not offer infrastructure VEs (NFS servers, etc). It's not that
OpenVZ cannot do it but it doesn't seem to be it's core goal and there
are outstanding issues with some of it (at least for me, no autofs in a
VE, etc). <br>
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<pre wrap="">2) I have not found any mention on the web about support of these tools to pnfs.
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pnfs and nfs4 are fairly new concepts to Linux. I *think* I understand
the goals of this approach and it's benefits but I'd recommend to look
at the goals of OpenVZ and how containers gets us this host
abstraction. If you look at a shared kernel-based NFS design and how
OpenVZ does it's thing, it seems to me that the two approaches are
incompatible from at least a security point of view.<br>
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<pre wrap="">It's worth mentioning that the above URL does cite that one can patch the kernel
to allow kernel-based NFS to work within VEs though with the expected security
issues. Is this patch posted somewhere on the Wiki?
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I want know too.
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For my environments, I think this would be good to have posted and see
how it does. Maybe one of the OpenVZ developers is reading this and
could tell us if such a patch really does exist. If it does, could it
be posted (and ideally maintained)?<br>
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--David
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