060926 - pNFS

Lisa Week presents Parallel NFS (pNFS)

Find the slides for this presentation here.

Related OpenSolaris Projects
NFS version 4.1 pNFS OpenSolaris project

Summary of the Meeting

The September 2006 FROSUG meeting was held at NET Source, Inc. in Littleton, CO.  Many thanks to Rick Nelson at NET Source for hosting the meeting!  This is the first meeting that was held south of Denver giving the folks that live on that end of town a chance to attend.

There were about 12 people in attendance and Lisa Week presented pNFS (Parallel NFS). pNFS is a new protocol extention to NFSv4 which is being standardized in the NFSv4 Working Group of the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force). The pNFS protocol allows us to separate a NFS file system's data and metadata paths. With a separate data path we are free to lay file data out in interesting ways like striping it across multiple different file servers.  For more information check out the slides.

Lisa Week is a Software Engineer at Sun Microsystems. She started at Sun in June of 2001 after graduating from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering. When she first started at Sun she was in the Data Resource Management Group working on GUIs and APIs for things like file system mounts and shares. Then she went on to develop a CIM/WBEM provider for management of NFS. This what got her interested in and introduced her to NFS and she now works in the NFS group. Lisa has worked on multiple different NFSv4 related projects including NFSv4 ACLs (Access Control Lists) and she currently is a member of the pNFS (parallel NFS) project team.