From: Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Peng Tao <bergwolf@gmail.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>,
linuxnfs <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>,
"faibish, sorin" <faibish_sorin@emc.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/17] pnfs/blocklayout: reject pnfs blocksize larger than page size
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 09:13:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53E37B96.8040807@RedHat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140807112537.GA3437@lst.de>
On 08/07/2014 07:25 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 06:43:14PM +0800, Peng Tao wrote:
>> > So this kills EMC server support.
> Given the state the code claiming support for any server is a large
> exaggeration..
>
But eliminating the potential of supporting block layouts
does not sound like a very good idea to me....
There are rumors of other block layouts implementations
coming down the pike.... So hopefully we don't eliminating
any and all possible support of block layouts in the future...
steved.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-07 13:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-07 7:23 pnfs block layout driver fixes Christoph Hellwig
2014-08-07 7:23 ` [PATCH 01/17] nfs: cap request size to fit a kmalloced page array Christoph Hellwig
2014-08-07 7:23 ` [PATCH 02/17] pnfs: do not pass uninitialized lsegs to ->free_lseg Christoph Hellwig
2014-08-07 7:23 ` [PATCH 03/17] pnfs: force a layout commit when encountering busy segments during recall Christoph Hellwig
2014-08-07 7:23 ` [PATCH 04/17] pnfs: don't check sequence on new stateids in layoutget Christoph Hellwig
2014-08-07 7:23 ` [PATCH 05/17] pnfs: add flag to force read-modify-write in ->write_begin Christoph Hellwig
2014-08-07 7:23 ` [PATCH 06/17] pnfs: add return_range method Christoph Hellwig
2014-08-07 7:23 ` [PATCH 07/17] pnfs: allow splicing pre-encoded pages into the layoutcommit args Christoph Hellwig
2014-08-07 7:23 ` [PATCH 08/17] pnfs/blocklayout: reject pnfs blocksize larger than page size Christoph Hellwig
2014-08-07 10:43 ` Peng Tao
2014-08-07 11:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-08-07 11:51 ` Peng Tao
2014-08-07 12:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-08-07 13:43 ` Peng Tao
2014-08-07 16:20 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-08-08 10:28 ` Peng Tao
2014-08-07 12:56 ` faibish, sorin
2014-08-07 13:45 ` Peng Tao
2014-08-07 16:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-08-07 16:18 ` faibish, sorin
2014-08-07 13:13 ` Steve Dickson [this message]
2014-08-07 13:17 ` Steve Dickson
2014-08-07 7:23 ` [PATCH 09/17] pnfs/blocklayout: improve GETDEVICEINFO error reporting Christoph Hellwig
2014-08-07 7:23 ` [PATCH 10/17] pnfs/blocklayout: plug block queues Christoph Hellwig
2014-08-07 7:23 ` [PATCH 11/17] pnfs/blocklayout: correctly decrement extent length Christoph Hellwig
2014-08-07 7:23 ` [PATCH 12/17] pnfs/blocklayout: remove read-modify-write handling in bl_write_pagelist Christoph Hellwig
2014-08-07 7:23 ` [PATCH 13/17] pnfs/blocklayout: don't set pages uptodate Christoph Hellwig
2014-08-07 7:23 ` [PATCH 14/17] pnfs/blocklayout: rewrite extent tracking Christoph Hellwig
2014-08-07 7:23 ` [PATCH 15/17] pnfs/blocklayout: implement the return_range method Christoph Hellwig
2014-08-07 7:23 ` [PATCH 16/17] pnfs/blocklayout: return layouts on setattr Christoph Hellwig
2014-08-07 7:23 ` [PATCH 17/17] pnfs/blocklayout: allocate separate pages for the layoutcommit payload Christoph Hellwig
2014-08-07 11:05 ` Peng Tao
2014-08-07 11:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-08-07 11:57 ` Peng Tao
2014-08-20 18:43 ` pnfs block layout driver fixes Jeff Layton
2014-08-20 22:14 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-09-07 15:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-09-07 16:44 ` Trond Myklebust
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