Re: Replication and migration requirements

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From: Brian Pawlowski (beepy@netapp.com)
Date: 08/17/01-12:12:57 PM Z


From: Brian Pawlowski <beepy@netapp.com>
Message-Id: <200108171712.KAA18585@tooting-fe.eng.netapp.com>
Subject: Re: Replication and migration requirements
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 10:12:57 -0700 (PDT)

NFS V4 as it stands includes some info to support client to server
interactions for client failover in a migration or replication
situation.

The work being proposed is a separate protocol to support
the feature defined for NFS V4.

Not adding anything new - only a server-to-server protocol to support
what is there.

> At 12:15 17/08/01, Spencer Shepler wrote:
> >  Are you saying that you don't need any replication or migration
> >backend protocol to support data management or that you don't want
> >those types of hooks/features in the NFSv4 protocol itself ?
> 
>         Good question.  Myself, I don't need a replication or
> migration backend protocol.  I accept that some other users
> probably do want the ability to replicate/migrate stuff
> between/among servers.
> 
>         So my main concern is that we don't do this inside NFSv4,
> which already appears to be more complex than necessary and
> already is an operational concern.  If replication (etc) were
> done in a totally decoupled way so that no additional gorp 
> gets added to NFSv4, that would be OK with me.
> 
>         It has not been clear to me (I couldn't be in London due
> to serious illness so am a bit out of sync) that this work was 
> being undertaken in such a totally decoupled manner.   Are folks
> intending to undertake this as a separate protocol, decoupled
> from NFSv4 ?  If yes, kindly pardon my confusion.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Ran
> rja@inet.org
> 


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