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It has been a while since my last blog entry so I thought I'd give you a little update on what I have been up to!

I have been spending my days working on pNFS (Parallel NFS). pNFS is a distributed, parallel file system which provides a highly scalable solution to data access and management. It does this by allowing for parallel data transfers across many NFSv4.1 file servers and by providing for a single, unified namespace for all objects in the pNFS file system.

The pNFS protocol is being standardized in the NFSv4 Working Group of the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) as a part of the NFSv4.1 specification effort.

With that, I'd like to invite you to check out a demo of the pNFS technology. And, while you are there take a look at what is going on with the NFS version 4.1 pNFS project.