From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758011AbYENWpr (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 May 2008 18:45:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751887AbYENWpf (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 May 2008 18:45:35 -0400 Received: from relay.2ka.mipt.ru ([194.85.82.65]:37096 "EHLO 2ka.mipt.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751221AbYENWpe (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 May 2008 18:45:34 -0400 Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 02:45:19 +0400 From: Evgeniy Polyakov To: Jamie Lokier Cc: Sage Weil , Jeff Garzik , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: POHMELFS high performance network filesystem. Transactions, failover, performance. Message-ID: <20080514224519.GA3739@2ka.mipt.ru> References: <20080513174523.GA1677@2ka.mipt.ru> <4829E752.8030104@garzik.org> <20080513205114.GA16489@2ka.mipt.ru> <20080514135156.GA23131@2ka.mipt.ru> <20080514143105.GB14987@shareable.org> <20080514150052.GA15826@2ka.mipt.ru> <20080514213251.GB23758@shareable.org> <20080514220252.GA14378@2ka.mipt.ru> <20080514222837.GF23758@shareable.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080514222837.GF23758@shareable.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:28:37PM +0100, Jamie Lokier (jamie@shareable.org) wrote: > I think that's a fine choice, but it doesn't solve difficult > problems. You still have to implement the server cloud. :-) If that would not be dificult problem, it would not be interesting at all :) > It's possible that implementing server cloud protocol _and_ simple > client protocol may be more work than just server cloud protocol. I'm > not sure. Thoughts welcome. Well, getting that client protocol is mostly ready, and its design allows infinite (blah!) extensions and extremely (blah!) flexible processing, we are close to just difficult server one :) -- Evgeniy Polyakov