Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2014 18:10:49 +0200
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: "faibish, sorin" <faibish_sorin@emc.com>
Cc: Peng Tao <bergwolf@gmail.com>,
        Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>,
        linuxnfs <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/17] pnfs/blocklayout: reject pnfs blocksize larger
	than page size
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On Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 08:56:04AM -0400, faibish, sorin wrote:
> Why don't you send a patch?

What patch?  Rewriting the broken code that was put in to support a server I
don't have access to and that apparently no one cared enough before to
fix even the most trivial bugs for?

I can leave the code for it in, but I can neither test nor really support it,
and from the state of the code it doesn't seem like anyone else really
cares for it.

How will sign up for supporting and testing > PAGE_SIZE servers if we
leave that support in?  And with support I mean regular runs of basic
QA like xfstests or just doing a simple dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/nfs/bigfile,
which already causes softlocks with the current code.