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Subject: Re: NFSv4/pNFS possible POSIX I/O API standards
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 10:02:56 +0000
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On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 06:37:38PM -0600, Rob Ross wrote:
> I think the subject line might be a little misleading; we're not just 
> talking about NFS here. There are a number of different file systems 
> that might benefit from these enhancements (e.g. GPFS, Lustre, PVFS, 
> PanFS, etc.).

Any support for advance filesystem semantics will definitly not be
available to propritary filesystems like GPFS that violate our copyrights
blatantly.