Re: [PATCH RFC v0 05/49] pnfsd: introduce pnfsd header files

["Matt W. Benjamin" <matt@linuxbox.com>]

Hi,

I think saying exofs is a proof of concept/toy is missing the point.
Exofs is an implementation baseline that provides insight into the
scalability/performance values that a pnfs implementation can achieve,
and potentially how to achieve them.

Matt

----- "Christoph Hellwig" <hch@infradead.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 03:29:06PM +0300, Benny Halevy wrote:
> > I picked gfs2 as the initial use case for simplicity and ease of
> review.
> > If there is a rough consensus that it's useless and not worthy of
> inclusion
> > then the one we care about the most is exofs that has a more
> complete pnfs
> > implementation.
> 
> This was in reference to file layout implementation details, so exofs
> isn't a contender there.
> 
> As far as exofs is concerned a pnfs implementation based on it has
> just
> as much toy status as the current gfs2 one.  While the pnfs side of
> it
> might as well be a lot better, a filesystem that lacks all the
> integrity
> and scalability features developed in the last 30 years can't be
> considered more than a proof of concept.
> 
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