[pnfs] Linux pNFS road map

[Benny Halevy]

On Dec. 11, 2007, 10:16 +0200, Christoph Hellwig <hch at infradead.org> wrote:
> 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.

I agree about proprietary layout drivers and the requirement for public
spec but banning the blocks and objects LDs (which will a public RFC
in the IETF along with NFSv4.1) from mainline is likely to delay the
development of the server side reference implementation.
I understand that you want to create incentive for such implementations
but I'm not sure that this is the best way to do it.  As far as my plans
go, the OSD server reference implementation is on my road map, on top of
a simple Object-based file system.

Benny