On 12/16/2010 06:16 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 06:14:34PM -0500, Ric Wheeler wrote:
This is not us trying to block anything, just do an orderly testing of changes.
Why do three "waves" of pNFS related changes and refactor code all at once?
Because some forces seem to force pnfs into the kernel despite neither
beeing ready nor overly useful. If you look at the userbase of the
Linux NFS client a robust XDR encode/decoder without buffer overflows is
a lot more important than a partially working pNFS client.
I think that the pNFS features are actually quite useful and do have a pull with
the user base. Not to knock the XDR work but I would put it behind the current
churn.
If you look at the number of pNFS commits from the NFS developers, clearly pNFS
is important to many of them (and/or their employers of course :))
Ric
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