On 2013-10-03 17:24, Ric Wheeler wrote: > On 10/03/2013 10:21 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 05:19:31PM +0300, Benny Halevy wrote: >>> The question is what is the minimum value for submitting upstream... >>> >>> The thing pnfs over dlm/gfs2 is missing mostly is supporting read/write layout. >>> One could use them load balancing, e.g. by either redirecting to a node >>> holding an exclusive lock on the file, if there is one, or dlm_ino_hash in its absence. >> One could do a lot of things, especially given infinite time. But what >> does the current code buy us? We need data on that to justify merging >> such a large chunk of code. >> > > I think that we can help figure out how to get something reasonably useful ready > for upstream, just need to get some people spun up to help test out some of > these ideas... That would be very helpful. Much appreciated! Benny > > ric > > -- > 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 > -- 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