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Re: [nfsv4] New version of sparse draft(draft-hildebrand-nfsv4-read-sparse-01.txt)

"Matt W. Benjamin" <matt@linuxbox.com> Sat, 02 October 2010 20:10 UTC

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From: "Matt W. Benjamin" <matt@linuxbox.com>
To: Pranoop Erasani <Pranoop.Erasani@netapp.com>
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Subject: Re: [nfsv4] New version of sparse draft(draft-hildebrand-nfsv4-read-sparse-01.txt)
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----- "Pranoop Erasani" <Pranoop.Erasani@netapp.com> wrote:

> 
> In pNFS, the MDS owns the metadata. If I may, I consider the hole
> information metadata.
> Having a DS send the metadata information does not seem like a right
> semantic to me.
> I'm not even sure, if MDS would like to share this data with DS.

If the system at hand happens to be organized in this way, sure.  The system I work with is not, and this approach seems much less natural, to me.

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