[pnfs] Linux pNFS road map

[Trond Myklebust]

On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 08:16 +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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.

Don't worry. It will be a fully GPLed 'files' based server. No
proprietary code.

Trond