On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 05:45:22PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Sat, Apr 14, 2018 at 12:22:02AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > What is the use case for adding all these crazy complications? > > Is there anything specific that you think is too complicated? > > I know you don't think server-to-server copy offload is worth the > trouble, but I haven't seen you actually explain why (beyond just that > it's more complicated). For one all code is buggy and introduces issues, and code implementing asynchronous, distributed state machines is even more so. So a large chunk of code is a big warning sign. Especially if it isn't actually useful to normal users. -- 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
