[pnfs] Linux pNFS road map

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 12:25:42PM -0800, Muntz, Daniel wrote:
> This addresses the client side.  Trond has suggested that the client
> code won't go into mainline without an open source server queued up
> within an rc or two of the client (or vice versa).  We've been working
> on a simple pNFS server (spNFS) that might fill this role, and we're
> close to putting it up on linux-nfs.org.  I'll attach the README file
> (incomplete) I've been working on for the release.

Please also make sure all layour drivers you want supported are included
in the server.  We're definitvely not going to allow propritary layout
drivers, and I'd argue we also don't want to support layour drivers
without a public spec and reference implementation on the server side.