Re: Some thoughts on NFS

On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 1:56 PM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> My point is that for iSCSC to be performant we'd need *all* the
> infrastructure we also need for direct IO *and* a *lot* more. And that
> it seems insane to invest very substantial resources into developing our
> own iSCSI client when we don't even have DIO support. And DIO support
> would allow us to address the error reporting issues, while also
> drastically improving performance in a lot of situations. And we'd not
> have to essentially develop our own filesystem etc.

OK, got it.  So, I'll merge the patch for direct I/O support tomorrow,
and then the iSCSI patch can go in on Thursday.  OK?  :-)