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

[Labiaga, Ricardo]

I read the proposal differently, but I'm happy with your interpretation.
We certainly need to understand the new API changes.

- ricardo


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fredric Isaman [mailto:iisaman at citi.umich.edu] 
> Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 9:41 AM
> To: Labiaga, Ricardo
> Cc: Benny Halevy; pnfs at linux-nfs.org
> Subject: RE: [pnfs] [PATCH 00/25] pnfs block patches
> 
> 
> 
> 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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