[pnfs] [PATCH] Removed sessions hard-coded 32678 byte max sizes

[Iyer, Rahul]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: J. Bruce Fields [mailto:bfields at fieldses.org] 
> Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 9:59 AM
> To: Iyer, Rahul
> Cc: William A. (Andy) Adamson; pnfs at linux-nfs.org
> Subject: Re: [pnfs] [PATCH] Removed sessions hard-coded 32678 
> byte max sizes
> 
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 09:44:35AM -0700, Iyer, Rahul wrote:
> > Btw, isn't largeio part of the mainline now? 
> 
> Yeah, so there's a decision to make here:
> 
> We could update our current code to something more recent.  
> That would have the advantage that we could dump some 
> temporary fixes like that bigio patch.  But it would have the 
> disadvantage that it will require some tedious fixing up, and 
> may introduce a new bug or two.  Also, it's more work sunk 
> into something that (as long as it's not reviewed and split 
> up into small patches) looks like a bit of a dead end.
> 
> So I'm tempted by the idea of freezing this prototype at 
> 2.6.18, and saying that any new development start from the 
> ground up with the latest kernel.  I liked Trond's idea of 
> starting with a patch that literally just clones the 
> nfs_rpc_ops struct.  Interested in starting that?
> 

Which kernel do we start with? The latest stable one?
Thanks,
Regards
Rahul


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