From: Boaz Harrosh <openosd@gmail.com>
To: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Peng Tao <bergwolf@primarydata.com>,
Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com>,
Linux NFS Mailing List <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/9] pnfs/blocklayout: return layouts on setattr
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 13:55:10 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5415740E.6030202@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHQdGtR9gVaw7wG0R6JfXHb8W+M3LnqXcwWyuCXe4=oNbXFGMA@mail.gmail.com>
On 09/11/2014 07:14 PM, Trond Myklebust wrote:
<>
> In the files layout case, it is actually quite common for the server
> to hand out an "infinite" sized layout in response to a LAYOUTGET. It
> means that the client doesn't need to ask for a new layout in order to
> append to the file.
>
You mean to say that: "The Linux files-layout driver only supports infinite
sized layout, so it is pointless to return a layout which will be returned
again, exactly the same"
Because I agree that "an infinite sized layout" need not be returned but
an none-infinite should, only we do not have any.
Cheers
Boaz
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-14 10:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-10 15:23 pnfs block layout driver fixes V4 Christoph Hellwig
2014-09-10 15:23 ` [PATCH 1/9] pnfs: force a layout commit when encountering busy segments during recall Christoph Hellwig
2014-09-10 15:23 ` [PATCH 2/9] pnfs: add flag to force read-modify-write in ->write_begin Christoph Hellwig
2014-09-10 15:23 ` [PATCH 3/9] pnfs: add return_range method Christoph Hellwig
2014-09-11 13:54 ` Peng Tao
2014-09-11 15:20 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-09-11 15:30 ` Peng Tao
2014-09-11 15:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-09-12 2:22 ` Peng Tao
2014-09-13 19:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-09-10 15:23 ` [PATCH 4/9] pnfs/blocklayout: remove read-modify-write handling in bl_write_pagelist Christoph Hellwig
2014-09-10 15:23 ` [PATCH 5/9] pnfs/blocklayout: don't set pages uptodate Christoph Hellwig
2014-09-10 15:23 ` [PATCH 6/9] pnfs/blocklayout: rewrite extent tracking Christoph Hellwig
2014-09-11 14:11 ` Peng Tao
2014-09-11 15:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-09-10 15:23 ` [PATCH 7/9] pnfs/blocklayout: implement the return_range method Christoph Hellwig
2014-09-11 14:16 ` Peng Tao
2014-09-11 15:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-09-10 15:23 ` [PATCH 8/9] pnfs/blocklayout: return layouts on setattr Christoph Hellwig
2014-09-11 14:24 ` Peng Tao
2014-09-11 14:42 ` Boaz Harrosh
2014-09-11 15:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-09-11 15:38 ` Trond Myklebust
2014-09-11 15:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-09-11 16:14 ` Trond Myklebust
2014-09-14 10:55 ` Boaz Harrosh [this message]
2014-09-14 13:24 ` Trond Myklebust
2014-09-14 13:51 ` Boaz Harrosh
2014-09-14 14:16 ` Trond Myklebust
2014-09-14 14:28 ` Boaz Harrosh
2014-09-10 15:23 ` [PATCH 9/9] pnfs/blocklayout: allocate separate pages for the layoutcommit payload Christoph Hellwig
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-09-09 16:40 pnfs block layout driver fixes V3 Christoph Hellwig
2014-09-09 16:40 ` [PATCH 8/9] pnfs/blocklayout: return layouts on setattr Christoph Hellwig
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