From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@tonian.com>
Cc: Marc Eshel <eshel@almaden.ibm.com>,
Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>,
Peng Tao <bergwolf@gmail.com>,
Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>,
Garth Gibson <garth@panasas.com>,
Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>,
linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, Matt Benjamin <matt@linuxbox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] nfs41: allow layoutget at pnfs_do_multiple_writes
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 06:14:57 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111201111457.GA4506@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ED74D19.7060302@tonian.com>
On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 11:47:05AM +0200, Benny Halevy wrote:
> On 2011-11-30 21:44, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 04:52:59PM -0800, Marc Eshel wrote:
> >> Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> wrote on 11/29/2011 04:37:05
> >> PM:
> >>>
> >>> Peng Tao, bhalevy, Boaz Harrosh, Garth Gibson, Fred Isaman, linux-
> >>> nfs, Matt Benjamin
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 16:20 -0800, Marc Eshel wrote:
> >>>> You ignored my main point, I was talking about the server side, my
> >> point
> >>>> was that there is nothing to build on on the serve side since the pNFS
> >>
> >>>> Linux server is not happening.
> >>>> Marc.
> >>>
> >>> Sorry. I misunderstood your concern. As far as I know, the main problem
> >>> there is also one of investment: nobody has stepped up to help Bruce
> >>> write a pNFS server.
> >>>
> >>> I'm less worried about this now than I was earlier, because other open
> >>> source efforts are gaining traction (see Ganesha - which is being
> >>> sponsored by IBM, and projects such as Tigran's java based pNFS server).
> >>> The other point is that we've developed client test-rigs that don't
> >>> depend on the availability of a Linux server (newpynfs and the pynfs
> >>> based proxy).
> >>
> >> You got it backward, Ganesha is getting traction precisely because the
> >> Linux kernel server is not happening :)
> >
> > My understanding is the same as Trond's--the reason it's not happening
> > is because nobody is making an effort to merge it. What am I missing?
> >
>
> Tonian is working on this and we've allocated resources also to help
> out on your nfs4.1 todo list.
Great, thanks; let me know how I can help.
--b.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-01 11:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-03 4:52 [PATCH 0/4] nfs41: allow layoutget at pnfs_do_multiple_writes Peng Tao
2011-11-29 21:34 ` Boaz Harrosh
2011-11-29 21:50 ` Boaz Harrosh
2011-11-29 21:57 ` Trond Myklebust
2011-11-29 22:40 ` Boaz Harrosh
2011-11-29 22:47 ` Trond Myklebust
2011-11-29 22:58 ` Boaz Harrosh
2011-11-29 23:30 ` Trond Myklebust
2011-11-29 23:49 ` Marc Eshel
2011-11-30 0:08 ` Trond Myklebust
2011-11-30 0:20 ` Marc Eshel
2011-11-30 0:37 ` Trond Myklebust
2011-11-30 0:50 ` Boaz Harrosh
2011-11-30 19:39 ` J. Bruce Fields
2011-11-30 0:52 ` Marc Eshel
2011-11-30 19:44 ` J. Bruce Fields
2011-12-01 9:47 ` Benny Halevy
2011-12-01 11:14 ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2011-12-01 11:48 ` J. Bruce Fields
2011-11-30 0:42 ` Boaz Harrosh
2011-11-30 0:24 ` Boaz Harrosh
2011-11-30 0:58 ` Trond Myklebust
2011-11-30 1:46 ` Boaz Harrosh
2011-11-30 2:07 ` Trond Myklebust
2011-11-30 3:08 ` Boaz Harrosh
2011-11-30 12:33 ` Benny Halevy
2011-11-30 0:37 ` Matt W. Benjamin
2011-11-30 0:48 ` Matt W. Benjamin
2011-11-30 1:01 ` Trond Myklebust
2011-11-30 1:03 ` Matt W. Benjamin
2011-11-29 23:01 ` Trond Myklebust
2011-11-29 23:47 ` Boaz Harrosh
2011-11-30 3:16 ` tao.peng
2011-11-30 3:50 ` Boaz Harrosh
2011-11-30 5:05 ` tao.peng
2011-11-30 12:42 ` Benny Halevy
2011-12-03 4:52 ` [PATCH 1/4] nfsv41: export pnfs_find_alloc_layout Peng Tao
2011-12-03 4:52 ` [PATCH 2/4] nfsv41: add and export pnfs_find_get_layout_locked Peng Tao
2011-12-03 4:52 ` [PATCH 3/4] nfsv41: get lseg before issue LD IO if pgio doesn't carry lseg Peng Tao
2011-11-30 13:01 ` Benny Halevy
2011-11-30 13:20 ` Peng Tao
2011-12-03 4:52 ` [PATCH 4/4] pnfsblock: do ask for layout in pg_init Peng Tao
2011-11-29 16:40 ` Trond Myklebust
2011-11-29 17:25 ` Peng Tao
2011-11-29 17:43 ` Trond Myklebust
2011-11-30 2:55 ` tao.peng
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