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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@redhat.com>
To: Olga Kornievskaia <aglo@umich.edu>
Cc: Olga Kornievskaia <kolga@netapp.com>,
	linux-nfs <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 0/9] NFSD support for async COPY
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 15:16:45 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180712191645.GC10033@parsley.fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN-5tyFeuDxTFTpM_-ZJp27sc87A1TU0ToDJxb2Kw4jTGFA+-A@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 03:11:14PM -0400, Olga Kornievskaia wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 2:56 PM, J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com> wrote:
> > I think we got confused in the previous discussion of this.
> >
> > The reason I wanted the module parameter was that server-to-server copy
> > would allow a rogue client to direct the server to copy from any server
> > it wishes, and I thought this was potentially risky, and want people to
> > opt into it rather than having it the default.
> >
> > That doesn't apply to asynchronous copy on its own.
> >
> > So this module parameter could wait for the next patchset.
> 
> To clarify, you want "inter" copy offload to be configuration, but it
> already was (when it was first posted) under config option. Now
> instead of a compile option you prefer this to be a module parameter?

That's right.

I'd like distributions to be able to include server-to-server-copy
capable kernels, but I don't want it on by default because I think
responsible administrators will want to do some firewalling first.

> Do you have any other comments? I'd rather not re-post another version
> if you have more comments.

In that case I'd recommend holding off till next week.

--b.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-07-12 19:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-09 19:26 [PATCH v9 0/9] NFSD support for async COPY Olga Kornievskaia
2018-07-09 19:26 ` [PATCH v9 1/9] NFSD CB_OFFLOAD xdr Olga Kornievskaia
2018-07-09 19:26 ` [PATCH v9 2/9] NFSD OFFLOAD_STATUS xdr Olga Kornievskaia
2018-07-09 19:26 ` [PATCH v9 3/9] NFSD OFFLOAD_CANCEL xdr Olga Kornievskaia
2018-07-09 19:26 ` [PATCH v9 4/9] NFSD xdr callback stateid in async COPY reply Olga Kornievskaia
2018-07-09 19:26 ` [PATCH v9 5/9] NFSD introduce async copy feature Olga Kornievskaia
2018-07-12 21:18   ` J. Bruce Fields
2018-07-09 19:26 ` [PATCH v9 6/9] NFSD create new stateid for async copy Olga Kornievskaia
2018-07-09 19:26 ` [PATCH v9 7/9] NFSD handle OFFLOAD_CANCEL op Olga Kornievskaia
2018-07-09 19:26 ` [PATCH v9 8/9] NFSD support OFFLOAD_STATUS Olga Kornievskaia
2018-07-09 19:26 ` [PATCH v9 9/9] NFSD stop ongoing async copies on client shutdown Olga Kornievskaia
2018-07-12 18:56 ` [PATCH v9 0/9] NFSD support for async COPY J. Bruce Fields
2018-07-12 19:11   ` Olga Kornievskaia
2018-07-12 19:16     ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2018-07-15 22:52       ` J. Bruce Fields

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