On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 04:52:59PM -0800, Marc Eshel wrote: > Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 11/29/2011 04:37:05 > PM: > > > > Peng Tao, bhalevy, Boaz Harrosh, Garth Gibson, Fred Isaman, linux- > > nfs, Matt Benjamin > > > > On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 16:20 -0800, Marc Eshel wrote: > > > You ignored my main point, I was talking about the server side, my > point > > > was that there is nothing to build on on the serve side since the pNFS > > > > Linux server is not happening. > > > Marc. > > > > Sorry. I misunderstood your concern. As far as I know, the main problem > > there is also one of investment: nobody has stepped up to help Bruce > > write a pNFS server. > > > > I'm less worried about this now than I was earlier, because other open > > source efforts are gaining traction (see Ganesha - which is being > > sponsored by IBM, and projects such as Tigran's java based pNFS server). > > The other point is that we've developed client test-rigs that don't > > depend on the availability of a Linux server (newpynfs and the pynfs > > based proxy). > > You got it backward, Ganesha is getting traction precisely because the > Linux kernel server is not happening :) My understanding is the same as Trond's--the reason it's not happening is because nobody is making an effort to merge it. What am I missing? --b. -- 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
