[pnfs] pNFS 2.6.17

[William A.(Andy) Adamson]

tigran (DESY/dCache) saw the same behaviour,m client hang. i'll see what is 
different between 2.6.16 and 2.6.17

-->Andy

> I just tried to run pNFS 2.6.17 and it did not work. Did any one got it to 
> work with the file protocol? 
> I tried mount and read, it did get the device list but it never requested 
> the layout from the MDS it was just hang.
> 
> On another subject, just before moving to 2.6.17 I applied the 1MB 
> read/write patch from Greg Banks at it seemed to work fine, so if know one 
> objects I would like to apply it to 2.6.17. One problem that I saw testing 
> with 1MB read size is that the client ignored the stripe unite that the 
> MDS specified in the layout stripe unit and used the 1MB read size which 
> is wrong. 
> 
> Marc. 
> 
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