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      <title>By Joshua Konkle</title>
      <description><![CDATA[ Michael

Great article; I would like to emphasize that pNFS can support three storage types in the current standard.

Blocks - using FC, FCoE, iSCSI
Objects - using T10 OSD, i.e. Panasas model
Files - NFSv4.1 files layout, what you expect with NFS but only better and parallel

pNFS is really an abstraction layer supporting a standard for parallel read/write layout operations.  It specifics one metadata server + multiple data servers in the spec, but implementations can vary in how many metadata servers there are as long a they support the layout standard properly, which is supported by a client kernel from kernel.org into the Linux distributions.

Here is the link to the pNFS Standard-Draft; once copy edited (600pages) it will be published, but this is the specification (including bad grammar/spelling) until copy edited.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-nfsv4-pnfs-obj/

OSD is somewhat misunderstood due to the existing Internet/Enterprise Cloud and HPC object languages, Azure, HDF5, GAE, XAM.

Thanks for posting your article.

Joshua
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