On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 11:47:05AM +0200, Benny Halevy wrote: > 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. Great, thanks; let me know how I can help. --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
