[pnfs] [PATCH 00/25] pnfs block patches

Labiaga, Ricardo Ricardo.Labiaga at netapp.com
Fri Feb 15 11:34:58 EST 2008


Hi,

Can we please hold off on moving to the branch with API changes?  It's
only 1 working day before Bakeathon, and we still have a couple of
issues to resolve on the move to d19 for spnfs.

- ricardo 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Benny Halevy [mailto:bhalevy at panasas.com] 
> Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 2:09 AM
> To: Fred Isaman
> Cc: pnfs at linux-nfs.org
> Subject: Re: [pnfs] [PATCH 00/25] pnfs block patches
> 
> Fred, I'm going to merge this patchset into a branch off of pnfs-d19,
> let's call it pnfs-block-v0 for now, so we can work on it 
> while in bakeathon.
> Eventually, the generic patches will be merged into either 
> the nfs41 or 
> pnfs branches and the pnfs-block branch will contain only the block
> layout type specific contents.
> 
> I suggest we all move to working now over the pnfs-block branch since
> it contains some API changes.
> 
> I'll hang panlayout on top of it and I'd like to ask everybody to make
> sure panlayout compiles if you make any changes that might affect it.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Benny
> 
> On Feb. 14, 2008, 20:21 +0200, Fred Isaman 
> <iisaman at citi.umich.edu> wrote:
> > These patches implement block layout for the (draft 13) client.
> > I had to add quite a few new hooks, so wanted to get this 
> out for discussion
> > at bake-a-thon.
> > 
> > Patches containing "fix" either are bug fixes or are 
> changes that would
> > affect other drivers.  In particular, some version of the 
> first patch,
> > which changes the return value interpretation of pnfs_readpages and
> > pnfs_writepages, is necessary for me.
> > 
> > The other hook additions are in the patches that do not begin with
> > "pnfs: block"
> > 
> >         Fred
> > 
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