Re: Some thoughts on NFS

On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 7:58 PM Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 1:56 PM Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> > My point is that for iSCSC to be performant we'd need *all* the
> > infrastructure we also need for direct IO *and* a *lot* more. And that
> > it seems insane to invest very substantial resources into developing our
> > own iSCSI client when we don't even have DIO support. And DIO support
> > would allow us to address the error reporting issues, while also
> > drastically improving performance in a lot of situations. And we'd not
> > have to essentially develop our own filesystem etc.
>
> OK, got it. So, I'll merge the patch for direct I/O support tomorrow,
> and then the iSCSI patch can go in on Thursday. OK? :-)
>

C'mon Robert.

Surely you know that such patches should be landed on *Fridays*, not
Thursdays.

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