Re: [nfsv4] Last Call: <draft-ietf-nfsv4-scsi-layout-06.txt> (Parallel NFS (pNFS) SCSI Layout) to Proposed Standard

Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Tue, 19 July 2016 08:37 UTC

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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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Subject: Re: [nfsv4] Last Call: <draft-ietf-nfsv4-scsi-layout-06.txt> (Parallel NFS (pNFS) SCSI Layout) to Proposed Standard
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On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 08:26:38AM +0000, Black, David wrote:
> - Yes, making 4k alignment a MUST would be a fine thing to do now.

Can we converge on a MUST for the device logical block size, be that
512, 4k or any other value that might happen in the future?