From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Benjamin ESTRABAUD <be@mpstor.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
"linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org" <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>,
"bc@mpstor.com" <bc@mpstor.com>
Subject: Re: Issue running buffered writes to a pNFS (NFS 4.1 backed by SAN) filesystem.
Date: Mon, 25 May 2015 08:14:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150525151429.GB18386@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <555CB69B.7030108@mpstor.com>
On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 05:30:19PM +0100, Benjamin ESTRABAUD wrote:
> I'm going to try this now (move client and maybe even server to Linux 4.0,
> now that 4.0 has a more "current" stable release).
Only the client is interesting in this case.
> By the way, what is the minimum Linux Kernel version required to connect to
> a NFS v4.1 server using pNFS? We only managed to get this working with
> kernel 4.0 (on the client) and it appears that this is the lowest kernel
> release that supports pNFS block clients (working with Linux pNFS recent
> block server). Could you please confirm this?
The big changes to make the block client useful went into 3.18. Almost
nothing has changed in the client since.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-25 15:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-15 17:44 Issue running buffered writes to a pNFS (NFS 4.1 backed by SAN) filesystem Benjamin ESTRABAUD
2015-05-15 19:20 ` J. Bruce Fields
2015-05-20 16:27 ` Benjamin ESTRABAUD
2015-05-20 18:31 ` Benjamin ESTRABAUD
2015-05-25 15:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-05-26 16:43 ` Benjamin ESTRABAUD
2015-05-20 19:40 ` J. Bruce Fields
2015-05-21 10:09 ` Benjamin ESTRABAUD
2015-05-17 16:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-05-20 16:30 ` Benjamin ESTRABAUD
2015-05-25 15:14 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2015-05-26 16:44 ` Benjamin ESTRABAUD
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