[nfsv4] Protocol Action: 'Add LAYOUT_WCC to NFSv4.2's Flex File Layout Type' to Proposed Standard (draft-ietf-nfsv4-layoutwcc-07.txt)

The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org> Mon, 10 February 2025 16:54 UTC

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Subject: [nfsv4] Protocol Action: 'Add LAYOUT_WCC to NFSv4.2's Flex File Layout Type' to Proposed Standard (draft-ietf-nfsv4-layoutwcc-07.txt)
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The IESG has approved the following document:
- 'Add LAYOUT_WCC to NFSv4.2's Flex File Layout Type'
(draft-ietf-nfsv4-layoutwcc-07.txt) as Proposed Standard

This document is the product of the Network File System Version 4 Working
Group.

The IESG contact persons are Zaheduzzaman Sarker and Francesca Palombini.

A URL of this Internet-Draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-nfsv4-layoutwcc/

Technical Summary

The Parallel Network File System (pNFS) Flexible File Layout allows
for a file's metadata (MDS) and data (DS) to be on different servers.
It does not provide a mechanism for the data server to update the
metadata server of changes to the data part of the file. The client
has knowledge of such updates, but lacks the ability to update the
metadata server. This document presents a refinement to RFC8435 to
allow the client to update the metadata server to changes on the data
server.

Working Group Summary

Agreement was reached across the WG for this draft. This draft was relatively uncontroversial. Nothing has been threatened or no particular conflict present.

Document Quality

There are some significant implementations (in Linux) but not broadly yet
beyond Linux. There is at least one server implementation. The Linux
implementation is part of the kernel mainline, and so included in all
distributions. This is, however, an optional feature.

Personnel

The Document Shepherd for this document is Christopher Inacio. The
Responsible Area Director is Zaheduzzaman Sarker.

[nfsv4] Protocol Action: 'Add LAYOUT_WCC to NFSv4… The IESG