The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Reporting of Errors via LAYOUTRETURN in NFSv4.2' (draft-ietf-nfsv4-layrec-04.txt) as Proposed Standard
This document is the product of the Network File System Version 4 Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Zaheduzzaman Sarker and Francesca Palombini. A URL of this Internet-Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-nfsv4-layrec/ Technical Summary The Parallel Network File System (pNFS) allows for a file's metadata (MDS) and data (DS) to be on different servers. When the metadata server is restarted, the client can still modify the data file component. During the recovery phase of startup, the metadata server and the data servers work together to recover state (which files are open, last modification time, size, etc). If the client has not encountered errors with the data files, then the state can be recovered, avoiding resilvering of the data files. With any errors, there is no means by which the client can report errors to the metadata server. As such, the metadata server has to assume that file needs resilvering. This document presents an extension to RFC8435 to allow the client to update the metadata and avoid the resilvering. Working Group Summary Was there anything in the WG process that is worth noting? For example, was there controversy about particular points or were there decisions where the consensus was particularly rough? Broad agreement was reached. This document had no controversy. Document Quality Are there existing implementations of the protocol? Have a significant number of vendors indicated their plan to implement the specification? Are there any reviewers that merit special mention as having done a thorough review, e.g., one that resulted in important changes or a conclusion that the document had no substantive issues? If there was a MIB Doctor, Media Type, or other Expert Review, what was its course (briefly)? In the case of a Media Type Review, on what date was the request posted? The Linux client and at least 1 server product have committed to this minor update. Personnel The Document Shepherd for this document is Christopher Inacio. The Responsible Area Director is Zaheduzzaman Sarker. IANA Note (Insert IANA Note here or remove section) _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
