From: Greg Banks Subject: Re: [PATCH] SGI 926917: make knfsd interact cleanly with HSMs Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 11:39:52 +1000 Message-ID: <1112233192.1991.1031.camel@hole.melbourne.sgi.com> References: <20050315074949.GA4541@sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Linux NFS Mailing List Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.12] helo=sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list2.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1DGog9-0000tR-JF for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 17:41:01 -0800 Received: from omx2-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.19] helo=omx2.sgi.com) by sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.41) id 1DGofs-0004LU-UJ for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 17:41:01 -0800 To: Neil Brown In-Reply-To: <20050315074949.GA4541@sgi.com> Sender: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing. List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 18:49, Greg Banks wrote: > This patch seeks to remedy the interaction between knfsd and HSMs by > providing mechanisms to allow knfsd to tell an underlying filesystem > (which supports HSMs) not to block for reads, writes and truncates > of offline files. It's a port of a Linux 2.4 patch used in SGI's > ProPack distro for the last 12 months. The patch: Any news on this patch? Is it good, bad, ugly, or what? Greg. -- Greg Banks, R&D Software Engineer, SGI Australian Software Group. I don't speak for SGI. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by Demarc: A global provider of Threat Management Solutions. Download our HomeAdmin security software for free today! http://www.demarc.com/Info/Sentarus/hamr30 _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs