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| author | Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> | 2017-04-12 19:01:08 +0300 |
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| committer | Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com> | 2017-04-20 22:51:23 +0300 |
| commit | 6d22323b2e9f95f99aa6f3e93c302f8100277078 (patch) | |
| tree | ebfe5d2290ef1144ac4777b30c3718bda22f08c5 /Documentation/filesystems | |
| parent | 260f32adb88dadfaac29f47f761a088238ca164c (diff) | |
| download | linux-6d22323b2e9f95f99aa6f3e93c302f8100277078.tar.xz | |
nfs: remove the objlayout driver
The objlayout code has been in the tree, but it's been unmaintained and
no server product for it actually ever shipped.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/nfs/pnfs.txt | 37 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 37 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/pnfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/pnfs.txt index 8de578a98222..80dc0bdc302a 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/pnfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/pnfs.txt @@ -64,46 +64,9 @@ table which are called by the nfs-client pnfs-core to implement the different layout types. Files-layout-driver code is in: fs/nfs/filelayout/.. directory -Objects-layout-driver code is in: fs/nfs/objlayout/.. directory Blocks-layout-driver code is in: fs/nfs/blocklayout/.. directory Flexfiles-layout-driver code is in: fs/nfs/flexfilelayout/.. directory -objects-layout setup --------------------- - -As part of the full STD implementation the objlayoutdriver.ko needs, at times, -to automatically login to yet undiscovered iscsi/osd devices. For this the -driver makes up-calles to a user-mode script called *osd_login* - -The path_name of the script to use is by default: - /sbin/osd_login. -This name can be overridden by the Kernel module parameter: - objlayoutdriver.osd_login_prog - -If Kernel does not find the osd_login_prog path it will zero it out -and will not attempt farther logins. An admin can then write new value -to the objlayoutdriver.osd_login_prog Kernel parameter to re-enable it. - -The /sbin/osd_login is part of the nfs-utils package, and should usually -be installed on distributions that support this Kernel version. - -The API to the login script is as follows: - Usage: $0 -u <URI> -o <OSDNAME> -s <SYSTEMID> - Options: - -u target uri e.g. iscsi://<ip>:<port> - (always exists) - (More protocols can be defined in the future. - The client does not interpret this string it is - passed unchanged as received from the Server) - -o osdname of the requested target OSD - (Might be empty) - (A string which denotes the OSD name, there is a - limit of 64 chars on this string) - -s systemid of the requested target OSD - (Might be empty) - (This string, if not empty is always an hex - representation of the 20 bytes osd_system_id) - blocks-layout setup ------------------- |