Chuck Lever III <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I've been working on a library (in fs/netfs/) to provide network filesystem > > support services, with help particularly from Jeff Layton. The idea is to > > move the common features of the VM interface, including request splitting, > > operation retrying, local caching, content encryption, bounce buffering and > > compression into one place so that various filesystems can share it. > > IIUC this suite of functions is beneficial mainly to clients, > is that correct? I'd like to be clear about that, this is not > an objection to the topic. Yes, this is intended as client-side support only. David
