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Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 09:17:58 -0400
From: Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>
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To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Peng Tao <bergwolf@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/17] pnfs/blocklayout: reject pnfs blocksize larger
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On 08/07/2014 09:13 AM, Steve Dickson wrote:
> 
> 
> On 08/07/2014 07:25 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 06:43:14PM +0800, Peng Tao wrote:
>>>> So this kills EMC server support.
>> Given the state the code  claiming support for any server is a large
>> exaggeration..
>>
> But eliminating the potential of supporting block layouts
> does not sound like a very good idea to me.... 
> 
> There are rumors of other block layouts implementations
> coming down the pike.... So hopefully we don't eliminating
> any and all possible support of block layouts in the future...
> 
My bad... I see this not the case... I jumped in with
out reading the entire thread.... 

But EMC server support is still not a good idea IMHO...

steved.