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From: David Chow <davidchow@shaolinmicro.com>
Subject: Re: NEC's GFS for mainline kernels?
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 01:21:38 +0800
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Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, tshibata@ab.jp.nec.com,
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Trond Myklebust wrote:

>>>>>>" " == Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> writes:
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>
>     > Hi Shibata-san, is there a chance your team could release NEC's
>     > direct-to-SAN NFS code (*) as a patch against stock kernels,
>     > too instead of only as part of the kernel RPMs for NEC's IA64
>     > servers?
>
>Hi,
>
>Is that some variant on the RDMA concept? (see http://www.rdmaconsortium.org)
>
>If so, please note that there is an ongoing effort to standardize
>RDMA-over-TCP via the IETF, and (of course) a parallel effort to
>integrate it into a future minor revision of NFSv4 (see
>http://www.snia.org/tech_activities/workgroups/nfs_rdma)
>
>Although it's too late in the game to add generic support for RDMA
>into 2.5.x/2.6.x, this type of project is certainly a very interesting
>candidate for inclusion in future kernels.
>
>Cheers,
>  Trond
>
>  
>
I am also confused. Are you talking about the DAFS project? Which file 
system are you talking about?

regards,
David