[pnfs] Linux pNFS road map

J. Bruce Fields bfields at fieldses.org
Tue Dec 11 16:07:48 EST 2007


On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 01:00:58PM -0800, Muntz, Daniel wrote:
> Yes, there's a bunch of stuff happening in userspace in the current
> implementation.  Some (most, all?) will move into the kernel.  The
> existing userspace design was done primarily to get something out
> quickly, which we could also modify/debug easily.  There's pleanty of
> stuff on the todo list, which we'll put out with the code RSN.

Sure.

Another random question: do you expect the "filesystem" you're exporting
to ever be usable by applications on the server?  (Without doing a
loopback NFS mount, that is).

--b.


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