From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=3.0 tests=DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A856FC169C4 for ; Fri, 8 Feb 2019 16:00:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D6E52086C for ; Fri, 8 Feb 2019 16:00:12 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=gmail.com header.i=@gmail.com header.b="L9D4lUUj" Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727280AbfBHQAL (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Feb 2019 11:00:11 -0500 Received: from mail-pl1-f171.google.com ([209.85.214.171]:44246 "EHLO mail-pl1-f171.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726524AbfBHQAL (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Feb 2019 11:00:11 -0500 Received: by mail-pl1-f171.google.com with SMTP id p4so1866993plq.11; Fri, 08 Feb 2019 08:00:10 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=PfbAjUbEMW3oVtnEVh0EJAO1g+2O04a4mvq++sCHFKc=; b=L9D4lUUjKCZ8o7fSOg3JOtNonujZ2QCKpWd9GxB7bU1MOVv904x37K9hwtfB01LjAn zh0j91hokemzWdzNAPPtHfHJ9IdA/kF4uURaonVZtt3P0IW7Vs2vTQGm4lFcEQKjNx7s n9gacH0GvZJ9AtMcbHWJikLZMYhMqIFWV5Qwj/yGkSH/wwZvfGEnYIHF2ES0W70JIvi3 vlCAIk3H1a8MswCQ1tuV5ehNn1xFViXKHXWU5BnDaWEyA1nJPBDTkKtMkU20Xnxz+u33 M8POCPUObY5E84/MK2lyYM0YgwKGxCP4PHf9yR8CtEstk6q4qxEZYnttFQU5+DgHxoMe gT9A== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=PfbAjUbEMW3oVtnEVh0EJAO1g+2O04a4mvq++sCHFKc=; b=NWmpp/76tzFY8/8uqA+gBDr/NT1cGvpmBmpMiuEbyEy/w+KesGLaC+Pfd3oOfHuWAl JjrGqjHp1XJq4FANmglw3/3snECtSZaYZb+20ueu3C3t7JiihQugsw2mbJ0IfBpmRLjY kmCKcrUZCyzSAnRNbTyhHcPSzTE+kWwoGJlhuJnE91PA7nqsyOmF58axSyvGDdQK5Jcq +f0WWEcUeHp84Yueym2oFmZAMnSqJ3+qlW8+cEyBuDvmMCJRp52P+6LXOnWKcuMa23qt KXcLsIUD+uifM/szb2XWRrWUyBzPMhcsfg8XWSBvmimib7iW6iAKmp7qWkbSMIjTzxQu FBVA== X-Gm-Message-State: AHQUAubrhFKvFT0iPlmTHeaBM9huaQVJKEaWV9jzXAHKSNIqCVZpcGqs GWWQy1GaFP0t0vHA383Gx69WWSl0Rrva+Z4dzyY= X-Google-Smtp-Source: AHgI3IYLR6I/oyZQ0O5D4rdX7L6tEIUSveL3M7hGMcx4dQc00SKfekGef8g2xVH1Tw5aAykAfdXGF7Q4TbZX9SwKlsw= X-Received: by 2002:a17:902:e090:: with SMTP id cb16mr9384376plb.32.1549641610143; Fri, 08 Feb 2019 08:00:10 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Steve French Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2019 09:59:59 -0600 Message-ID: Subject: [LSF/MM TOPIC] Network and Cluster File System Pain Points To: lsf-pc@lists.linux-foundation.org Cc: samba-technical , CIFS , linux-fsdevel Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org There are various topics particularly important to network and cluster file systems: - additional metadata on files, directories, mount points (statx, enhancements to the mount API, ACLs etc.) - performance related features (leases/delegation, RDMA integration, reflink/clone extensions, handling sideeffects of long latency network connections on common fs operations by better aggregating series of related operations together) - security features - mapping features available in various network and cluster FS protocols to Linux (in the past we also have discussed richacl, and a few features that would help Samba server). -- Thanks, Steve