Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 30 Sep 2013 16:08:48 -0400 | From | Ric Wheeler <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] extending splice for copy offloading |
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On 09/30/2013 04:00 PM, Bernd Schubert wrote: > pNFS, FhGFS, Lustre, Ceph, etc., all of them shall implement their own > interface? And userspace needs to address all of them differently?
The NFS and SCSI groups have each defined a standard which Zach's proposal abstracts into a common user API.
Distributed file systems tend to be rather unique and do not have similar standard bodies, but a lot of them could hide server specific implementations under the current proposed interfaces.
What is not a good idea is to drag out the core, simple copy offload discussion for another 5 years to pull in every odd use case :)
ric
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