Re: [nfsv4] [PATCH 1/3] Allow the client to inform the MDS of statistics

Tom Haynes <thomas.haynes@primarydata.com> Fri, 16 May 2014 15:24 UTC

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On May 16, 2014, at 3:20 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:

> Is it intentional that this uses the same layoutupdate4 as LAYOUTCOMMIT
> does in NFSv4.2?  

Yes


> To me this would imply the layout-specific blob is the
> same as passed to LAYOUTCOMMIT.
> 



No, it can be defined differently.

I don’t see the need for a new data structure to hold this info.