On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Both of these are easily handled if the server is 100% in charge of managing > the filesystem _metadata_ and data. That's what I meant by complete control. > > i.e. it not ext3 or reiserfs or vfat, its a block device or 1000GB file > managed by a userland process. Oh ok. Yes, if you bring the filesystem into user mode too, then the problems go away - because now your NFSD can interact directly with the filesystem without any kernel/usermode abstraction layer rules in between. So that has all the same properties as moving NFSD entirely into the kernel. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
