Re: Some thoughts on NFS

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Craig Ringer <craig(dot)ringer(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Some thoughts on NFS
Date: 2019-02-19 18:17:15
Message-ID: 20190219181715.z3w5bbsauimyqtu3@alap3.anarazel.de
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Hi,

On 2019-02-19 16:59:35 +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> There might be a use-case for the split that you mention, absolutely, but
> it's not going to solve the people-who-want-NFS situation. You'd solve more
> of that by having the middle layer speak "raw device" underneath and be
> able to sit on top of things like iSCSI (yes, really).

There's decent iSCSI implementations in several kernels, without the NFS
problems. I'm not sure what we'd gain by reimplementing those?

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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