Re: Integration of SCST in the mainstream Linux kernel

[Linus Torvalds]

On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
> Both of these are easily handled if the server is 100% in charge of managing
> the filesystem _metadata_ and data.  That's what I meant by complete control.
> 
> i.e. it not ext3 or reiserfs or vfat, its a block device or 1000GB file
> managed by a userland process.

Oh ok.

Yes, if you bring the filesystem into user mode too, then the problems go 
away - because now your NFSD can interact directly with the filesystem 
without any kernel/usermode abstraction layer rules in between. So that 
has all the same properties as moving NFSD entirely into the kernel.

			Linus
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