Re: [PATCH v9 0/9] NFSD support for async COPY

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On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 03:16:45PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 03:11:14PM -0400, Olga Kornievskaia wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 2:56 PM, J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > I think we got confused in the previous discussion of this.
> > >
> > > The reason I wanted the module parameter was that server-to-server copy
> > > would allow a rogue client to direct the server to copy from any server
> > > it wishes, and I thought this was potentially risky, and want people to
> > > opt into it rather than having it the default.
> > >
> > > That doesn't apply to asynchronous copy on its own.
> > >
> > > So this module parameter could wait for the next patchset.
> > 
> > To clarify, you want "inter" copy offload to be configuration, but it
> > already was (when it was first posted) under config option. Now
> > instead of a compile option you prefer this to be a module parameter?
> 
> That's right.
> 
> I'd like distributions to be able to include server-to-server-copy
> capable kernels, but I don't want it on by default because I think
> responsible administrators will want to do some firewalling first.
> 
> > Do you have any other comments? I'd rather not re-post another version
> > if you have more comments.
> 
> In that case I'd recommend holding off till next week.

I read through the rest of the patches and don't see any show stoppers.

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