[Beowulf] High Performance for Large Database

[Craig Tierney]

On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 18:34, Chris Samuel wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 03:04 am, hanzl at noel.feld.cvut.cz wrote:
> 
> > I did few greps through last 14553 messages in this maillist and the
> > strongest claim of personal experience I found was "Just set up a 2
> > node Lustre here".
> >
> > But my search may be incomplete and reports of happy users on this
> > list may be incomplete. Please tell us...
> 
> We had a brief experiment with the freely available version of Lustre for a 
> very short while, which we had to terminate because the prepackaged IA32 
> kernel we had put on our NFS server crashed repeatedly (without any Lustre 
> modules loaded).
> 
> This was because (as far as we could tell at the time) you couldn't add extra 
> OST's after creating a volume, and as we wanted failover we needed the new 
> system to be running the kernel at that point.
> 
> Note that although Lustre is available under the GPL the version that you can 
> download (you must give your email address first) is old (I think it's still 
> the same version we tried, 1.0) and you need to pay to get access to the 
> current versions.  This is consistent with the GPL, though.

Is Lustre GPL?  It was GPL as of version 1.0.4, but I was
under the impression that the newer source is not GPL.  CFS
has stated that they will eventually release the current
release (1.2) but they have not done this yet.  Version 1.4 
was supposed to be done in August, but hasn't been released yet.
Maybe version 1.2 will be released under the GPL when it is
no longer the latest release.

Craig