linux-kernel - Re: [NFS] [PATCH 000 of 14] knfsd: Preparation for IPv6 support in NFS server.

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Date:	Fri, 2 Feb 2007 09:07:47 +0000
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Cc:	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>, NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, nfs@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [NFS] [PATCH 000 of 14] knfsd: Preparation for IPv6 support in NFS server.

On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 01:02:24AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> NFS/RDMA is IMO more than a little bit questionable, and the likely 
> userbase is also quite small.  I'm not sure its worth a mainline merge 
> at this point.

Why do you think so?  In my eyes it's actually one of the few useful
applications for RDMA, especially combined with something like pnfs [*].
Also if you'd look at the patches they're very clean - it's just another
possible transport with almost no invastion to the core code.


[*] yes, the actual pnfs spec is fugly as hell and symptom of the nfsv4
    design by comittee braindamage, but the idea is sound..

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