On 2011-11-30 21:44, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > 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? > Tonian is working on this and we've allocated resources also to help out on your nfs4.1 todo list. Benny > --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
