Re: [nfsv4] New version of sparse draft(draft-hildebrand-nfsv4-read-sparse-01.txt)
"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Sun, 03 October 2010 18:35 UTC
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Subject: Re: [nfsv4] New version of sparse draft(draft-hildebrand-nfsv4-read-sparse-01.txt)
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On Sun, Oct 03, 2010 at 12:05:13AM -0700, Erasani, Pranoop wrote: > Bruce, > > Thanks for getting back. > > > Their current proposal is mainly just an optimization to allow > > returning > > long strings of zeroes to clients in read requests. (Servers may be > > using file allocation information to identify long strings of zeroes > > efficiently, but that's an implementation detail.) > > > > This isn't about allocation, or metadata--it's just a minor > incremental > > improvement to READ. > > That's one interpretation. But, having to deprecate READ to provide this > feature > doesn't seem like a minor feature to me. I don't understand. For one thing, we're unlikely to "deprecate read" any time soon, regardless of what Dean says. (See Dave Noveck's comment, for example.) --b.
- [nfsv4] New version of sparse draft (draft-hildeb… Dean Hildebrand
- Re: [nfsv4] New version of sparse draft (draft-hi… Matt W. Benjamin
- Re: [nfsv4] New version of sparse draft (draft-hi… Thomas Haynes
- Re: [nfsv4] New version of sparse draft (draft-hi… J. Bruce Fields
- Re: [nfsv4] New version of sparse draft (draft-hi… J. Bruce Fields
- Re: [nfsv4] New version of sparse draft (draft-hi… Dean Hildebrand
- Re: [nfsv4] New version of sparse draft (draft-hi… Dean Hildebrand
- Re: [nfsv4] New version of sparse draft (draft-hi… Thomas Haynes
- Re: [nfsv4] New version of sparse draft (draft-hi… J. Bruce Fields
- Re: [nfsv4] New version of sparse draft (draft-hi… Benny Halevy
- [nfsv4] Fwd: Re: New version of sparse draft (dra… Benny Halevy
- Re: [nfsv4] New version of sparse draft (draft-hi… Benny Halevy
- Re: [nfsv4] New version of sparse draft (draft-hi… J. Bruce Fields
- Re: [nfsv4] New version of sparse draft (draft-hi… Dean Hildebrand
- Re: [nfsv4] New version of sparse draft (draft-hi… Dean Hildebrand
- Re: [nfsv4] New version of sparse draft (draft-hi… J. Bruce Fields
- Re: [nfsv4] New version of sparse draft (draft-hi… J. Bruce Fields
- Re: [nfsv4] New version of sparse draft (draft-hi… J. Bruce Fields
- Re: [nfsv4] New version of sparse draft (draft-hi… Marc Eshel
- Re: [nfsv4] New version of sparse draft (draft-hi… david.noveck
- [nfsv4] Fwd: Re: New version of sparse draft (dra… Benny Halevy
- Re: [nfsv4] New version of sparse draft (draft-hi… Benny Halevy
- Re: [nfsv4] New version of sparse draft (draft-hi… david.noveck
- Re: [nfsv4] New version of sparse draft (draft-hi… J. Bruce Fields
- Re: [nfsv4] New version of sparse draft (draft-hi… Spencer Shepler
- Re: [nfsv4] New version of sparse draft (draft-hi… Marc Eshel
- Re: [nfsv4] New version of sparse draft (draft-hi… J. Bruce Fields
- Re: [nfsv4] New version of sparse draft (draft-hi… Spencer Shepler
- Re: [nfsv4] New version of sparse draft (draft-hi… Marc Eshel
- Re: [nfsv4] New version of sparse draft (draft-hi… J. Bruce Fields
- Re: [nfsv4] New version of sparse draft (draft-hi… Dean Hildebrand
- Re: [nfsv4] New version of sparse draft (draft-hi… Spencer Shepler
- Re: [nfsv4] New version of sparse draft (draft-hi… Dean Hildebrand
- Re: [nfsv4] New version of sparse draft (draft-hi… J. Bruce Fields
- Re: [nfsv4] New version of sparse draft (draft-hi… Dean Hildebrand
- Re: [nfsv4] New version of sparse draft (draft-hi… Benny Halevy
- Re: [nfsv4] New version of sparse draft (draft-hi… Dean Hildebrand
- Re: [nfsv4] New version of sparse draft(draft-hil… Erasani, Pranoop
- Re: [nfsv4] New version of sparse draft(draft-hil… Matt W. Benjamin
- Re: [nfsv4] New version of sparsedraft(draft-hild… Erasani, Pranoop
- Re: [nfsv4] New version of sparse draft(draft-hil… J. Bruce Fields
- Re: [nfsv4] New version of sparse draft(draft-hil… Erasani, Pranoop
- Re: [nfsv4] New version of sparse draft (draft-hi… James Lentini
- Re: [nfsv4] New version of sparse draft(draft-hil… david.noveck
- Re: [nfsv4] New version of sparse draft(draft-hil… J. Bruce Fields