On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 05:28:23PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > This series adds support for the pNFS operations in NFS v4.1, as well > as a block layout driver that can export block based filesystems that > implement a few additional export operations. Support for XFS is > provided in this series, but other filesystems could be added easily. > > The core pNFS code of course owns its heritage to the existing Linux > pNFS server prototype, but except for a few bits and pieces in the > XDR path nothing is left from it. > > The design of this new pNFS server is fairly different from the old > one - while the old one implemented very little semantics in nfsd > and left almost everything to filesystems my implementation implements > as much as possible in common nfsd code, then dispatches to a layout > driver that still is part of nfsd and only then calls into the > filesystem, thus keeping it free from intimate pNFS knowledge. > > More details are document in the individual patch descriptions and > code comments. > > This code is also available from: > > git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/pnfs.git pnfsd-for-3.20 Neat, thanks! I'll look at it. Some naive questions: - do we have evidence that this is useful in its current form? - any advice on testing? Is there was some simple virtual setup that would allow any loser with no special hardware (e.g., me) to check whether they've broken the block server? - any debugging advice? E.g., have you checked if current wireshark can handle the MDS traffic? --b. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
