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On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 02:36:16PM -0400, Benny Halevy wrote:
> The following patchset implements an extension to nfsd
> providing a complete minimal pnfs server exporting
> DLM-based clustered file systems such as GFS2 or OCFS2.

Does this actually buy us anything by now?  Last time I saw numbers for
this implementation it was slower than an active/passive setup over
those filesystem due to the way their cluster locking works.