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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Tom Haynes <thomas.haynes@primarydata.com>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>,
	Linux NFS Mailing list <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] nfsd: Provide a config option for flex file layouts
Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 17:09:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160525150917.GC27535@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1464152979-103988-5-git-send-email-loghyr@primarydata.com>

> +config NFSD_FLEXFILELAYOUT
> +	bool "NFSv4.1 server support for pNFS Flex File layouts"
> +	depends on NFSD_V4
> +	select NFSD_PNFS
> +	help
> +	  This option enables support for the exporting pNFS Flex File
> +	  layouts in the kernel's NFS server. The pNFS Flex File  layout
> +	  enables NFS clients to directly perform I/O to NFSv3 devices
> +	  accesible to both the server and the clients.  See
> +	  draft-ietf-nfsv4-flex-files for more details.

How about a bit more of a warning that this is just a toy demo server?

Also I'd say merge this into the previous patch.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-25 15:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-25  5:09 [PATCH 0/4] Super simple flex file server Tom Haynes
2016-05-25  5:09 ` [PATCH 1/4] nfsd: flex file device id encoding will need the server addres Tom Haynes
2016-05-25 11:49   ` Jeff Layton
2016-05-25 15:08   ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-05-25  5:09 ` [PATCH 2/4] nfsd: Can leak pnfs_block_extent on error Tom Haynes
2016-05-25 11:50   ` Jeff Layton
2016-05-25 15:07   ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-05-25 18:12     ` Thomas Haynes
2016-05-25 18:20       ` J. Bruce Fields
2016-05-25  5:09 ` [PATCH 3/4] nfsd: Add a super simple flex file server Tom Haynes
2016-05-25 12:00   ` Jeff Layton
2016-05-25 12:30   ` Jeff Layton
2016-05-25 14:41     ` Thomas Haynes
2016-05-25 17:42     ` J. Bruce Fields
2016-05-25 21:57       ` Jeff Layton
2016-05-26 13:18         ` J. Bruce Fields
2016-05-25 15:15   ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-05-26  5:37     ` Thomas Haynes
2016-05-25  5:09 ` [PATCH 4/4] nfsd: Provide a config option for flex file layouts Tom Haynes
2016-05-25 15:09   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2016-05-25 18:19     ` Thomas Haynes
2016-05-25 18:21       ` J. Bruce Fields

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