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From: bfields@fieldses.org (J. Bruce Fields)
To: "Bradley C. Kuszmaul" <bradley.kuszmaul@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: directory delegations
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2019 12:11:16 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190402161116.GA2828@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2065755c-f888-9c62-f6e5-f143d42c51ee@oracle.com>

On Mon, Apr 01, 2019 at 12:21:49PM -0400, Bradley C. Kuszmaul wrote:
> Hi, I'm the architect for Oracle's File Storage Service.   FSS is
> basically a big scalable NFS server that runs in Oracle's cloud.
> 
> Our metadata operations have higher latency than a vanilla NFS
> server (e.g., a Linux NFS server serving a XFS stored on a block
> device), and we suspect that directory delegations would make a big
> performance improvement.
> 
> I understand, however, that essentially no one implements directory
> delegations.
> 
> Can anyone fill me in on the current thinking of the future of
> support for directory delegations in the Linux NFS client?

Maybe somebody else will speak up, but I don't know of any effort to
implement directory delegations.

What metadata operations specifically are you worried about?  The
directory delegations that are specified in RFC 5661 are read-only.
Which might explain some of the lack of interest.

But there may be other steps that we could take to improve matters.

--b.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-04-02 16:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-01 16:21 directory delegations Bradley C. Kuszmaul
2019-04-02 16:11 ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2019-04-02 17:26   ` Bradley C. Kuszmaul
2019-04-02 17:29     ` Bradley C. Kuszmaul
2019-04-02 19:41     ` J. Bruce Fields
2019-04-02 21:51       ` Trond Myklebust
2019-04-02 22:33         ` Trond Myklebust
2019-04-03  0:28         ` bfields
2019-04-03  2:02           ` Trond Myklebust
2019-04-03  2:07             ` bfields
2019-04-03 16:56               ` Bradley C. Kuszmaul
2019-04-04  1:05                 ` bfields
2019-04-04 15:09                   ` Jeff Layton
2019-04-04 15:22                     ` Chuck Lever
2019-04-04 15:36                       ` Jeff Layton
2019-04-04 20:03                       ` Bradley C. Kuszmaul
2019-04-04 20:41                         ` Bruce Fields
2019-04-04 20:45                           ` Bradley C. Kuszmaul
2019-04-04 15:37                     ` bfields
2019-04-04 15:44                       ` Jeff Layton

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