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Show HN: Open Lustre in the cloud, with ZFS OSTs on object storage not disks
Open Lustre is a full working Lustre filesystem - MGS, MDT, an OST per node, active-active HA with failover - brought up on GCP or Azure with one command. The unconventional part is that the OSTs sit on cloud object storage, not disks.
That is possible because of objbacker.io: a ZFS vdev that writes directly to object storage.
The managed Lustre CSI drivers that GKE and AKS ship for their own managed Lustre services mount this filesystem transparently.
- suprasam 2mo agoThis work was presented at LUG 2026 https://www.opensfs.org/wp-content/uploads/16-ZettaLane_LUG_2026_deck_final.pdf https://www.opensfs.org/wp-content/uploads/16-ZettaLane_LUG_...
- rahuldhole 2mo agoVery nice!
- suprasam 2mo agoThanks. The part that surprised me most was how well ZFS fits object storage and extended to pNFS too!