linux-kernel - Re: Question about pNFS documentation

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Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2024 23:40:57 +0800
From: ChenXiaoSong <chenxiaosong@...nxiaosong.com>
To: Chuck Lever III <chuck.lever@...cle.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@...merspace.com>,
 Anna Schumaker <anna@...nel.org>, Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@...hat.com>,
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Subject: Re: Question about pNFS documentation

Thanks very much for your detailed reply.

在 2024/6/14 21:00, Chuck Lever III 写道:
> 
>> On Jun 14, 2024, at 4:37 AM, ChenXiaoSong <chenxiaosong@...nxiaosong.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for your reply. By the way, are there any plans for the Linux NFS server to implement the file, flexfile and object layout?
> 
> The object layout type has been deprecated, IIRC. Support for
> that type was removed from the Linux NFS client years ago. No
> support for it in the server is planned.
> 
> The file layout type generally needs a cluster file system
> on the back end. You could build something over Ceph or
> gfs2, but it would be a significant effort and would need
> user demand. Currently there isn't any.
> 
> The NFS server has a toy flexfile layout implementation
> which is not much more than a proof of concept. We do have
> an unscoped to-do to look at building that out to provide
> a platform for testing the client's flexfile support. That
> effort is not a high priority.
> 
> 
> --
> Chuck Lever
> 
>