From: Greg Banks Subject: Re: [patch 00/29] SGI enhancedNFS patches Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 17:41:34 +1100 Message-ID: References: <20090331202800.739621000@sgi.com> <20090401002306.GC26583@fieldses.org> <49D30B04.900@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" , Greg Banks , Linux NFS ML To: Jeff Garzik Return-path: Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com ([209.85.198.228]:37142 "EHLO rv-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755864AbZDAGlg (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Apr 2009 02:41:36 -0400 Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id f9so3453791rvb.1 for ; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:41:34 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <49D30B04.900@garzik.org> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Greg Banks wrote: >> >> On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:23 AM, J. Bruce Fields >> wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 07:28:00AM +1100, Greg Banks wrote: >> >>>> Bruce: all of these are potentially candidates for 2.6.30. >>> >>> It's probably too late for 2.6.30 (the 4.1 stuff I've promised to try to >>> make a serious attempt at, but that's it). I'll publish a for-2.6.31 >>> branch as soon as I can.... (But of course anything that looks like a >>> bugfix I'll keep considering for 2.6.30.) >> >> No worries. I figured as much, but the patches really did need to be >> posted this week. > > So, what is enhancedNFS? Does enhancedNFS comply with current RFCs, or > deviate? > > What features does it add? It uses the same protocols. The server is faster and more scalable and has more statistics to drive the web-based management UI. The name is perhaps poorly chosen. -- Greg.