From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: A new NFSv4 server... Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 14:50:52 -0500 Message-ID: <477E8E1C.9090205@garzik.org> References: <200801041528.KAA18776@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca> <20080104172142.GD17112@fieldses.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Cc: Rick Macklem , linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, nfsv4@linux-nfs.org To: "J. Bruce Fields" Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:47626 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753354AbYADTvA (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jan 2008 14:51:00 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20080104172142.GD17112@fieldses.org> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 10:28:10AM -0500, Rick Macklem wrote: >>> Plus, surely in this day and age, we can figure out something better >>> than waiting for face-to-face events to test something. Maybe somebody >>> could arrange a donation of some slice of a grid (Amazon EC2?), make >>> various OS images available, and give engineers some way to request a >>> selection of tests, with a selection of OS images? >> I tried putting a server up accessible over the internet and only ever >> got one person testing on it once (or maybe it was just a hacker:-). I >> did test my client against a server at CITI once, after signing a >> bakeathon NDA. But, I agree, and I don't really think it even needs >> a central site. I don't see why vendors couldn't put up servers >> (production software or whatever they are comfortable having internet >> accessible) that clients can test against. I'll be happy to put my >> server up and I'd be happy to test against internet accessible servers >> with my client. > > Ditto. I think it'd be great to have a variety of client and server > implementations available over the net, but I've had no luck talking > anybody else into it. I think blanket public access wouldn't be as effective as passworded access to a cluster, much like how people get accounts on kernel.org (which is an excellent model for shared-interest services). On the test cluster, I would want to be able to really stress my software, which to any normal firewall or casual observer would look like a DoS attempt. Jeff