Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 4 Feb 2008 17:20:57 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: Integration of SCST in the mainstream Linux kernel |
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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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