Re: [pnfs] Linux pNFS status meeting 04/29

J. Bruce Fields
2010-04-30T21:30:59Z

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 01:39:03PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> 1. upstream status/merge plans (trond, bfields)
> - 2.6.34-rc5
> - server: merged one 2.6.34 bugfix, some more bugfixes/cleanup for
> 2.6.35, no new features merged.
> - client: bunch of bugfixes:
> - writeback code fixes:
> - race with commit
> - nfs_setup_writeback BUG_ON()
> - other than that, misc. NULL/ERR-mixups.
> - Andy notes he's been seeing bigfile blocked for >= 30
> seconds; Trond says that's probably due to the commit
> race above.
>
> 2. State of pNFS tree (bhalevy)
> - forwarded-ported to -rc5, released a few minutes ago. Passes
> cthon cleanly (thanks to commit race fix).
> - merged some other patches.
>
> 3. Mailing list change
> - consolidated pnfs and nfsv4 lists to linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
> - kernel.org appears to be having trouble; bfields will
> investigate.

As far as I can tell, from my mail and from public archives, the
kernel.org mailing lists just aren't working right now.

So for now I'm inclined to assume someobody's already working on it and
hope it'll be fixed soon....

Bad timing with the change, though!

--b.