Re: [LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] Netfs support library

[Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>]

On Tue, Feb 01, 2022 at 02:16:54AM +0000, Chuck Lever III wrote:
> 
> 
> > On Jan 31, 2022, at 4:06 PM, David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:
> > 
> > I've been working on a library (in fs/netfs/) to provide network filesystem
> > support services, with help particularly from Jeff Layton.  The idea is to
> > move the common features of the VM interface, including request splitting,
> > operation retrying, local caching, content encryption, bounce buffering and
> > compression into one place so that various filesystems can share it.
> 
> IIUC this suite of functions is beneficial mainly to clients,
> is that correct? I'd like to be clear about that, this is not
> an objection to the topic.
> 
> I'm interested in discussing how folios might work for the
> NFS _server_, perhaps as a separate or adjunct conversation.

I'd be happy to have that discussion with you, possibly in advance of
LSFMM.  I have a fortnightly Zoom call (which I put up on Youtube),
and I'd be happy to have this as a topic one week if more people are
interested than just you & I.  If it's just you & me, then we can chat
any time ;-)