Re: A new NFSv4 server...

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

On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 12:03:54PM -0600, Tom Haynes wrote:
> I suspect that the explosion of virtual servers has
> probably killed this type of effort. It appears much
> easier for me to give you an image than to expose
> a machine on the network.

Each little bit you can take away from the overhead will make people
much more likely to test.  The connectathon experience is just:

	- Look up server's name.
	- mount servername:/ /mnt/
	- run test

The virtual server image approach requires at least getting the server
image and probably doing some configuration too, and then remembering to
get updates occasionally.

> Sun actually has a set of test machines the public can
> use to regression test OpenSolaris fixes. I'm not sure
> if it can accommodate foreign OSes just yet.
>
> And to add to Rick's story, we've got the pNFS enabled
> bits available for download. We've only gotten feedback
> from one person. So either our code is really great and
> we are not getting feedback, or people are just waiting
> for the pNFS implementations to mature.

Or it got released just before the holidays....

>
> We did get a request to make the bits available as a
> VMware image. :->

Hah.

--b.