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| author |   Daniel W. S. Almeida <dwlsalmeida@gmail.com> | 2020-01-10 20:24:30 -0300 |
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| committer |   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2020-01-16 12:43:05 -0700 |
| commit | 98600b71f2bfc066d5dc8a25abf5fef84f8fc96c (patch) | |
| tree | 02255fdc21e60d09e6eba123a9bcebd858f68e27 /Documentation/filesystems | |
| parent | Documentation: nfs: convert pnfs-block-server to ReST (diff) | |
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Documentation: nfs: pnfs-scsi-server: convert to ReST
Convert pnfs-scsi-server to ReST and move it to admin-guide. Content
remains mostly unchanged.
Signed-off-by: Daniel W. S. Almeida <dwlsalmeida@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/5c4b8af41ca0a427a3987535815bccf47a65d320.1578697871.git.dwlsalmeida@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/nfs/pnfs-scsi-server.txt | 23 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 23 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/pnfs-scsi-server.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/pnfs-scsi-server.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 5bef7268bd9f..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/pnfs-scsi-server.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,23 +0,0 @@ - -pNFS SCSI layout server user guide -================================== - -This document describes support for pNFS SCSI layouts in the Linux NFS server. -With pNFS SCSI layouts, the NFS server acts as Metadata Server (MDS) for pNFS, -which in addition to handling all the metadata access to the NFS export, -also hands out layouts to the clients so that they can directly access the -underlying SCSI LUNs that are shared with the client. - -To use pNFS SCSI layouts with with the Linux NFS server, the exported file -system needs to support the pNFS SCSI layouts (currently just XFS), and the -file system must sit on a SCSI LUN that is accessible to the clients in -addition to the MDS. As of now the file system needs to sit directly on the -exported LUN, striping or concatenation of LUNs on the MDS and clients -is not supported yet. - -On a server built with CONFIG_NFSD_SCSI, the pNFS SCSI volume support is -automatically enabled if the file system is exported using the "pnfs" -option and the underlying SCSI device support persistent reservations. -On the client make sure the kernel has the CONFIG_PNFS_BLOCK option -enabled, and the file system is mounted using the NFSv4.1 protocol -version (mount -o vers=4.1). |