Re: Question about pNFS documentation

[ChenXiaoSong]

Thanks very much for your detailed reply.

在 2024/6/14 21:00, Chuck Lever III 写道:
> > On Jun 14, 2024, at 4:37 AM, ChenXiaoSong <chenxiaosong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for your reply. By the way, are there any plans for the Linux NFS server to implement the file, flexfile and object layout?
>
> The object layout type has been deprecated, IIRC. Support for
> that type was removed from the Linux NFS client years ago. No
> support for it in the server is planned.
>
> The file layout type generally needs a cluster file system
> on the back end. You could build something over Ceph or
> gfs2, but it would be a significant effort and would need
> user demand. Currently there isn't any.
>
> The NFS server has a toy flexfile layout implementation
> which is not much more than a proof of concept. We do have
> an unscoped to-do to look at building that out to provide
> a platform for testing the client's flexfile support. That
> effort is not a high priority.
>
>
> --
> Chuck Lever