From: "J. Bruce Fields" Subject: Re: A new NFSv4 server... Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 13:21:13 -0500 Message-ID: <20080104182113.GI17112@fieldses.org> References: <200801041528.KAA18776@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca> <20080104172142.GD17112@fieldses.org> <477E750A.2030905@excfb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Rick Macklem , linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, nfsv4@linux-nfs.org To: Tom Haynes Return-path: Received: from mail.fieldses.org ([66.93.2.214]:42167 "EHLO fieldses.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751002AbYADSVR (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jan 2008 13:21:17 -0500 In-Reply-To: <477E750A.2030905-8AdZ+HgO7noAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 12:03:54PM -0600, Tom Haynes wrote: > I suspect that the explosion of virtual servers has > probably killed this type of effort. It appears much > easier for me to give you an image than to expose > a machine on the network. Each little bit you can take away from the overhead will make people much more likely to test. The connectathon experience is just: - Look up server's name. - mount servername:/ /mnt/ - run test The virtual server image approach requires at least getting the server image and probably doing some configuration too, and then remembering to get updates occasionally. > Sun actually has a set of test machines the public can > use to regression test OpenSolaris fixes. I'm not sure > if it can accommodate foreign OSes just yet. > > And to add to Rick's story, we've got the pNFS enabled > bits available for download. We've only gotten feedback > from one person. So either our code is really great and > we are not getting feedback, or people are just waiting > for the pNFS implementations to mature. Or it got released just before the holidays.... > > We did get a request to make the bits available as a > VMware image. :-> Hah. --b.