Re: [PATCH 0/4] nfs41: allow layoutget at pnfs_do_multiple_writes

["J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>]

On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 11:47:05AM +0200, Benny Halevy wrote:
> On 2011-11-30 21:44, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 04:52:59PM -0800, Marc Eshel wrote:
> >> Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> wrote on 11/29/2011 04:37:05 
> >> PM:
> >>>
> >>> Peng Tao, bhalevy, Boaz Harrosh, Garth Gibson, Fred Isaman, linux-
> >>> nfs, Matt Benjamin
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 16:20 -0800, Marc Eshel wrote: 
> >>>> You ignored my main point, I was talking about the server side, my 
> >> point 
> >>>> was that there is nothing to build on on the serve side since the pNFS 
> >>
> >>>> Linux server is not happening.
> >>>> Marc.
> >>>
> >>> Sorry. I misunderstood your concern. As far as I know, the main problem
> >>> there is also one of investment: nobody has stepped up to help Bruce
> >>> write a pNFS server.
> >>>
> >>> I'm less worried about this now than I was earlier, because other open
> >>> source efforts are gaining traction (see Ganesha - which is being
> >>> sponsored by IBM, and projects such as Tigran's java based pNFS server).
> >>> The other point is that we've developed client test-rigs that don't
> >>> depend on the availability of a Linux server (newpynfs and the pynfs
> >>> based proxy).
> >>
> >> You got it backward, Ganesha is getting traction precisely because the 
> >> Linux kernel server is not happening :)
> > 
> > My understanding is the same as Trond's--the reason it's not happening
> > is because nobody is making an effort to merge it.  What am I missing?
> > 
> 
> Tonian is working on this and we've allocated resources also to help
> out on your nfs4.1 todo list.

Great, thanks; let me know how I can help.

--b.