Sun acquires ClusterFS

[Posted September 12, 2007 by corbet]

Sun has announced the acquisition of Cluster File Systems. "Sun intends to add support for the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) on Lustre and plans to continue enhancing Lustre on Linux and Solaris OS across multi vendor hardware platforms."

Sun acquires ClusterFS

Posted Sep 12, 2007 18:55 UTC (Wed) by drag (guest, #31333) [Link]

This is huge.

ClusterFS is a major developer behind Ext3/Ext4...

Sun acquires ClusterFS

Posted Sep 13, 2007 20:23 UTC (Thu) by joib (subscriber, #8541) [Link]

Seems like Sun is planning to have a go at high-end HPC. The Constellation 500 Tflop monster at TACC, and now this.

Also, it seems that the Lustre servers are going Solaris only. From http://arch.lustre.org/index.php?title=Lustre_1.8_Vision_... : "Lustre 1.8 will offer the ext4/ldiskfs backends and ZFS DMU backends, as well as a migrator between them, for both the MDS and OSS. Lustre 2.0 will phase out support for the ldiskfs file system."

I suppose vendors who sell Lustre stuff today like IBM, Cray, HP etc. won't be overly happy with this. Interesting times.