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

[Fredric Isaman]

On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Labiaga, Ricardo wrote:

> 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
>

My understanding is that he meant look at the patches (in particular patch 
01/25) to understand a proposed API change.  Since they are attached under
pnfs-d19, they shouldn't affect working Bakeathon code.

 	Fred


>> -----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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