From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from magus.merit.edu ([198.108.1.13]:46398 "EHLO magus.merit.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752110Ab0K2W0P (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:26:15 -0500 Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:26:13 -0500 From: Jim Rees To: Jeff Garzik Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, peter honeyman , sfaibish Subject: Re: Block layout rpm Message-ID: <20101129222613.GA1210@merit.edu> References: <20101129210708.GA21682@merit.edu> <4CF4249F.9070400@garzik.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <4CF4249F.9070400@garzik.org> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Jeff Garzik wrote: "pNFS will work with 32-bit linux and lesser hardware, but the you will not obtain the performance benefits of pNFS." That's just silly, and, I might even go so far as to say "wrong". The benefits of direct-to-storage access, without an MDS middle-man, are quite noticable even for 32-bit, underpowered, and/or embedded clients. Agreed. It used to say 64-bit only, and I added the part about 32-bit because it does run on 32-bit, but really that should just come out. I'll fix it.