[pnfs] Linux pNFS road map

[J. Bruce Fields]

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.

By the time you're done implementing I/O to the metadata server and all
metadata operations (create, rename, remove,...), doesn't spNFS
essentially end up being a complete filesystem in userspace?

--b.