I prepared an initial version of the pnfs patch series candidate for 2.6.40. It implements basic support for layout segments and error handling (fallback to the MDS) for non-rpc based layout drivers. Comments welcome! :) The patches are also available in git://linux-nfs.org/~bhalevy/linux-pnfs.git pnfs-submit On top of it I rebased the following branches to allow easier testing: pnfs-submit pnfs-obj pnfs pnfsd-all pnfsd-lexp-all pnfs-exofs-all These branches do not include the pnfs-block implementation yet. generic pnfs additions: [RFC 01/27] pnfs: CB_NOTIFY_DEVICEID [RFC 02/27] pnfs: direct i/o [RFC 13/27] pnfs: client stats for pnfs-obj: [RFC 03/27] pnfs: layoutreturn [RFC 04/27] pnfs: layoutret_on_setattr [RFC 05/27] pnfs: Use byte-range layout segments [RFC 06/27] pnfs: encode_layoutreturn [RFC 07/27] pnfs: encode_layoutcommit [RFC 08/27] pnfs: {setup,cleanup}_layoutcommit [RFC 09/27] pnfs: support for non-rpc layout drivers [RFC 10/27] pnfs: {,un}set_layoutdriver methods [RFC 11/27] pnfs: per mount layout driver private data [RFC 12/27] pnfs: alloc and free layout_hdr layoutdriver methods [RFC 14/27] pnfsd: introduce exp_xdr.h pnfs-obj [RFC 15/27] pnfs-obj: pnfs_osd XDR definitions [RFC 16/27] pnfs-obj: pnfs_osd XDR client implementations [RFC 17/27] exofs: pnfs-tree: Remove pnfs-osd private definitions [RFC 18/27] pnfs-obj: Define PNFS_OBJLAYOUT Kconfig option [RFC 19/27] pnfs-obj: objlayout driver skeleton [RFC 20/27] pnfs-obj: objio_osd device information retrieval and caching [RFC 21/27] pnfs-obj: objio_osd real IO implementation [RFC 22/27] sunrpc: New xdr_rewind_stream() [RFC 23/27] pnfs-obj: objlayout_encode_layoutreturn Implementation. [RFC 24/27] pnfs-obj: objio_osd report osd_errors for layoutreturn [RFC 25/27] pnfs-obj: objlayout_encode_layoutcommit implementation [RFC 26/27] pnfs-obj: objio_osd: RAID0 support [RFC 27/27] pnfs-obj: objio_osd: groups support * Need to move to xdr_stream based decoding. * Boaz has some changes queued up, including using a common I/O engine for exofs and the pnfs-obj layout driver. -- 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