On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 9:25 PM, J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 02:49:32PM +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote: >> On 12/25/2011 06:30 AM, Benny Halevy wrote: >> > Now that the client side of pnfs is in the mainline kernel >> > I believe it is time to consider the inclusion of the server side. > > We're also closing in on the basic 4.1 todo's, so I agree that it will > soon be time to talk about merging server-side pNFS. > >> > I propose the following agenda for discussion >> > (order may change with no advance notice :) >> > >> > * What's currently available in git://linux-nfs.org/~halevy/linux-pnfs.git >> > - What are the sub-projects >> > - How they relate to each other >> > >> > * High-level design of the implementation >> > >> > * Summary of generic changes in nfsd >> > >> > * For each of the different sub-projects, briefly present: >> > - What does it do >> > - Benefits and Potential >> > - Limitations >> > - Status >> > - To-do >> > >> > * Prerequisites for inclusion > > Understood that it may depend on where things stand in April, but: what > specifically do you think will be likely to require the attention of a > wider group of linux filesystem developers (ass opposed to just nfs > developers)? I have nothing specific at this time. My thinking was to present the what's and why's of the prerequisites in high level and maybe provide an example. Benny > > --b. > >> > * Discussion >> > >> >> Me too! This subject is close to my heart, as exofs is the most >> complete and advanced pNFSD base implementation. Last testing >> has demonstrated amazing performance and scalability. Saturating >> 10G from a single client and saturating 4*10G storage cluster >> from multiple clients.(Though there were problems with too many >> clients) -- 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
