On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 6:55 AM, Boaz Harrosh <openosd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 09/11/2014 07:14 PM, Trond Myklebust wrote: > <> >> In the files layout case, it is actually quite common for the server >> to hand out an "infinite" sized layout in response to a LAYOUTGET. It >> means that the client doesn't need to ask for a new layout in order to >> append to the file. >> > > You mean to say that: "The Linux files-layout driver only supports infinite > sized layout, so it is pointless to return a layout which will be returned > again, exactly the same" > > Because I agree that "an infinite sized layout" need not be returned but > an none-infinite should, only we do not have any. > No Boaz. I mean that it is utterly pointless and stupid to return a layout that doesn't preallocate any resources when it isn't necessary to do so. -- 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
