From: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
To: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>,
linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/13] RFC: pnfs: filelayout: introduce minimal file layout driver
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 13:28:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C8E0AF5.1000500@panasas.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1284163980.14078.111.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org>
On 2010-09-11 03:13, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 20:07 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 08:03:53PM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:
>>> So you are saying we should simply equate CONFIG_PNFS_FILE_LAYOUT and
>>> CONFIG_NFS_V4_1 right now? Yep, I'd be fine with that... I'm still
>>> working on the patches to get rid of all these CONFIG options, but
>>> ultimately this is what I'm working towards.
>>
>> If you don't want a separate option that's up to you, but I don't think
>> forcing people to built the pnfs file layout just because they want nfs4.1
>> features is an all that smart idea.
>
> IMHO it should be fine.
>
> Most people will be compiling NFS as a module, in which case, the pnfs
> file layout is just another module that can be left out from the final
> binary if people don't want it.
>
> I'm still waiting to hear from people who want to compile NFSv4.1 in the
> main kernel, but who want pNFS to be modularised.
If a user uses a different layout driver and not the files layout driver
than the latter is just extra baggage. That said, the way Fred implemented
the Kconfig option, it cannot be disabled independently anyway so it's rather
pointless.
Benny
>
> Cheers
> Trond
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-13 11:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-02 18:00 [PATCH 00/13] RFC: pnfs: LAYOUTGET/DEVINFO submission Fred Isaman
2010-09-02 18:00 ` [PATCH 01/13] NFSD: remove duplicate NFS4_STATEID_SIZE Fred Isaman
2010-09-02 18:00 ` [PATCH 02/13] SUNRPC: define xdr_decode_opaque_fixed Fred Isaman
2010-09-02 18:00 ` [PATCH 03/13] RFC: pnfsd, pnfs: protocol level pnfs constants Fred Isaman
2010-09-02 18:00 ` [PATCH 04/13] RFC: nfs: change stateid to be a union Fred Isaman
2010-09-02 18:00 ` [PATCH 05/13] RFC: nfs: ask for layouttypes during fsinfo call Fred Isaman
2010-09-02 18:00 ` [PATCH 06/13] RFC: nfs: set layout driver Fred Isaman
2010-09-02 18:00 ` [PATCH 07/13] RFC: pnfs: full mount/umount infrastructure Fred Isaman
2010-09-10 19:23 ` Trond Myklebust
[not found] ` <1284146604.10062.68.camel-rJ7iovZKK19ZJLDQqaL3InhyD016LWXt@public.gmane.org>
2010-09-10 20:53 ` Fred Isaman
2010-09-13 11:06 ` Boaz Harrosh
2010-09-13 14:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-13 15:14 ` Boaz Harrosh
2010-09-13 11:20 ` Benny Halevy
2010-09-10 23:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-11 0:07 ` Trond Myklebust
2010-09-13 11:24 ` Benny Halevy
2010-09-13 12:29 ` Trond Myklebust
2010-09-13 14:37 ` Benny Halevy
2010-09-13 16:55 ` Trond Myklebust
2010-09-13 14:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-13 14:39 ` Benny Halevy
2010-09-13 15:07 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-13 15:27 ` Fred Isaman
2010-09-02 18:00 ` [PATCH 08/13] RFC: pnfs: filelayout: introduce minimal file layout driver Fred Isaman
2010-09-10 19:31 ` Trond Myklebust
2010-09-10 21:11 ` Fred Isaman
2010-09-10 22:37 ` Trond Myklebust
2010-09-13 10:32 ` Benny Halevy
2010-09-13 13:01 ` Fred Isaman
[not found] ` <AANLkTimONZfA6ZX4xtzbmy0NdfEtbwMAi+__PhFYznTn-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2010-09-13 14:23 ` Benny Halevy
2010-09-13 14:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-13 10:16 ` Benny Halevy
2010-09-10 23:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-11 0:03 ` Trond Myklebust
2010-09-11 0:07 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-11 0:13 ` Trond Myklebust
2010-09-13 11:28 ` Benny Halevy [this message]
2010-09-13 15:08 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-13 15:16 ` Fred Isaman
2010-09-02 18:00 ` [PATCH 09/13] RFC: nfs: create and destroy inode's layout cache Fred Isaman
2010-09-10 19:43 ` Trond Myklebust
[not found] ` <1284147785.10062.80.camel-rJ7iovZKK19ZJLDQqaL3InhyD016LWXt@public.gmane.org>
2010-09-10 21:13 ` Fred Isaman
2010-09-13 11:32 ` Benny Halevy
2010-09-02 18:00 ` [PATCH 10/13] RFC: nfs: client needs to maintain list of inodes with active layouts Fred Isaman
2010-09-10 19:59 ` Trond Myklebust
[not found] ` <1284148768.10062.94.camel-rJ7iovZKK19ZJLDQqaL3InhyD016LWXt@public.gmane.org>
2010-09-10 21:18 ` Fred Isaman
2010-09-02 18:00 ` [PATCH 11/13] RFC: nfs: retry on certain pnfs errors Fred Isaman
2010-09-02 18:00 ` [PATCH 12/13] RFC: pnfs: add LAYOUTGET and GETDEVICEINFO infrastructure Fred Isaman
2010-09-10 20:11 ` Trond Myklebust
2010-09-10 21:47 ` Fred Isaman
2010-09-10 22:43 ` Trond Myklebust
2010-09-13 14:16 ` Benny Halevy
2010-09-02 18:00 ` [PATCH 13/13] RFC: pnfs: filelayout: add driver's " Fred Isaman
2010-09-10 20:33 ` Trond Myklebust
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