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On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 01:02:24AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> NFS/RDMA is IMO more than a little bit questionable, and the likely 
> userbase is also quite small.  I'm not sure its worth a mainline merge 
> at this point.

Why do you think so?  In my eyes it's actually one of the few useful
applications for RDMA, especially combined with something like pnfs [*].
Also if you'd look at the patches they're very clean - it's just another
possible transport with almost no invastion to the core code.


[*] yes, the actual pnfs spec is fugly as hell and symptom of the nfsv4
    design by comittee braindamage, but the idea is sound..