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From: Dai Ngo <dai.ngo@oracle.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Chuck Lever <cel@kernel.org>
Cc: Zhou Jifeng <zhoujifeng@kylinsec.com.cn>,
	linux-nfs <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Can the PNFS blocklayout of the Linux nfsd server be used in a production environment?
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2025 10:10:39 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6b29d6fb-04e8-43da-bc1d-0e78572b5402@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aS6ChyDRx-hALj5V@infradead.org>


On 12/1/25 10:09 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> As the author of much of the block* layout code I agree with Chuck, just
> want to throw in a little extra note:
>
> On Thu, Nov 27, 2025 at 11:40:50AM -0500, Chuck Lever wrote:
>> NFSD's pNFS block layout with NVMe implementation is fresh from the
>> factory (I think the implementation went into v6.12?). As with
>> iSCSI/SCSI, try it and see if it works well enough for you.
> So while the NVMe layout support is indeed very new, it's also very
> little code, on the server side the support is entirely contained in
> the nvme driver by implementing the get_unique_id method (~60 lines of
> code) and on the client side it is looking for the nvme persistent
> devices names (2 Lines of code after a small preparatory refactoring).
>
> So in general I think it should be taken as the same maturity as the
> SCSI layout at this point.

How does server fence a client using NVMe layout?

-Dai


  reply	other threads:[~2025-12-04 18:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-11-27  2:14 Can the PNFS blocklayout of the Linux nfsd server be used in a production environment? Zhou Jifeng
2025-11-27 16:40 ` Chuck Lever
2025-11-28  8:12   ` Zhou Jifeng
2025-11-28 16:17     ` Chuck Lever
2025-11-28  8:57   ` LAYOUT4_NFSV4_1_FILES supported? " Sebastian Feld
2025-11-28 16:23     ` Chuck Lever
2025-11-28 23:16       ` Rick Macklem
2025-12-01 15:11         ` Chuck Lever
2025-12-02  6:09   ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-12-04 18:10     ` Dai Ngo [this message]
2025-12-05  8:05       ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-12-05 18:50         ` Dai Ngo

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