[pnfs] wireshark

Robert Gordon Robert.Gordon at Sun.COM
Fri Jun 6 13:16:41 EDT 2008


On Jun 6, 2008, at 2:47 AM, Benny Halevy wrote:

> On Jun. 03, 2008, 23:01 +0300, "J. Bruce Fields"  
> <bfields at fieldses.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 09:13:20AM +0200, Tigran Mkrtchyan wrote:
>>> +/* Not part of the IEFT draft specification */
>>> +#define NFS4_OP_NOTIFYDS              60
>>> +#define NFS4_OP_PNFS_CREATE           61
>>> +#define NFS4_OP_PNFS_WRITE            62
>>> +#define NFS4_OP_PNFS_READ             63
>>
>> So what are these last four definitions for?
>
> Good question.  Doesn't seem like anything we have on linux
> We have an internal op for PNFS_WRITE (to DS), but it
> shouldn't be sent on the wire.  My guess is that this is
> part of the Solaris specific back-end protocol...
> Robert, can you please comment on that?
>
> Benny

It was in the source code that i originally obtained from (iirc)
Bruce's tree.. I made the big jump/assumption that it was something
special for linux, and so left it in (my gut reaction was to rip it
out :) ) ...

Robert. 


More information about the pNFS mailing list