The NFS SIG is focused on creating a portfolio of marketing and educational materials explaining the features, benefits, use cases and best practices related to NFS-based NAS solutions. Particular focus will be on applications and benefits of emerging new capabilities, such as pNFS. The goal is to drive the continued market growth and broad adoption of NFS, and a rapid market uptake as vendors bring their pNFS implementations to market.
NFS SIG Co-Chairs
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Below are a number of documents that might be of interest.
pNFS Presentations
pNFS Reference Material
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pNFS Problem Statement - This draft considers the problem of limited bandwidth to NFS servers. The bandwidth limitation exists because an NFS server has limited network, CPU, memory and disk I/O resources.
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Linux pNFS Kernel Development - Linux pNFS features a pluggable client architecture that harnesses the potential of pNFS as a universal and scalable metadata protocol by enabling dynamic support for file layout format, storage protocol, and file system policies. The architecture has been tested with the file, block, object, and PVFS2 access methods.
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OpenSolaris Project: NFS v4.1 pNFS - This reference document discusses openly design and develop a NFSv4.1 parallel NFS (pNFS) implementation for OpenSolaris, verify and provide feedback to the IETF NFSv4 working group about the NFSv4.1 specification, to understand the impacts and requirements of NFSv4.1 pNFS for OpenSolaris.
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pNFS Block/Volume Layout - Parallel NFS (pNFS) extends NFSv4 to allow clients to directly access file data on the storage used by the NFSv4 server. This ability to bypass the server for data access can increase both performance and parallelism, but requires additional client functionality for data access, some of which is dependent on the class of storage used.
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Object-based pNFS Operations - Parallel NFS (pNFS) extends NFSv4 to allow clients to directly access file data on the storage used by the NFSv4 server.
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NFS Version 4 Minor V1 - This document describes NFS version 4 minor version one, including features retained from the base protocol (NFS version 4 minor version zero which is specified in RFC3530) and protocol extensions made subsequently.
