Hi, I think saying exofs is a proof of concept/toy is missing the point. Exofs is an implementation baseline that provides insight into the scalability/performance values that a pnfs implementation can achieve, and potentially how to achieve them. Matt ----- "Christoph Hellwig" <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 03:29:06PM +0300, Benny Halevy wrote: > > I picked gfs2 as the initial use case for simplicity and ease of > review. > > If there is a rough consensus that it's useless and not worthy of > inclusion > > then the one we care about the most is exofs that has a more > complete pnfs > > implementation. > > This was in reference to file layout implementation details, so exofs > isn't a contender there. > > As far as exofs is concerned a pnfs implementation based on it has > just > as much toy status as the current gfs2 one. While the pnfs side of > it > might as well be a lot better, a filesystem that lacks all the > integrity > and scalability features developed in the last 30 years can't be > considered more than a proof of concept. > > -- > 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 -- Matt Benjamin The Linux Box 206 South Fifth Ave. Suite 150 Ann Arbor, MI 48104 http://linuxbox.com tel. 734-761-4689 fax. 734-769-8938 cel. 734-216-5309 -- 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
