Have we beaten this dead horse to a pulp yet? I was just asking if there was such an option, not advocating for adding one. It would have been useful at the time for my own testing but I can see the argument against adding unwanted knobs. The discussion has been useful in one way. I will now be spending some time making sure the block layout driver falls back gracefully to no-pnfs if, for example, an iscsi target can't be contacted. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html