From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264658AbUE2R4z (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 May 2004 13:56:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264610AbUE2R4z (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 May 2004 13:56:55 -0400 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:25749 "EHLO ozlabs.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264658AbUE2R4o (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 May 2004 13:56:44 -0400 Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 03:53:14 +1000 From: Anton Blanchard To: "Peter J. Braam" Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "'Phil Schwan'" Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Lustre VFS patch Message-ID: <20040529175314.GA7023@krispykreme> References: <20040524114009.96CE13100E2@moraine.clusterfs.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040524114009.96CE13100E2@moraine.clusterfs.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Peter, > This patch is not the Lustre file system, with client file system, > Lustre RPC, server code etc. This patch would enable people to run > Lustre with modules loading into unmodified kernels and this appears > to be something vendors really would like to see. FYI, at the moment > Lustre is a just a little bit larger than NFS, comparing clients, > servers, and rpc code for each (60K vs 80K lines of code). Seems to me we really need to look at this in tandem with the filesystem itself. Do you have a URL we can grab it from? Have these patches undergone any siginifant test? Anton