pnfsd-exofs: New set of exofs pnfs export patches

Benny hi

I'm submitting a new SQUASHED set of exofs patches. These should completely replace the patches you have now in the pnfsd-exofs{-all} branch

If anyone is curios I'll send a SQUASHME patchset as reply to this mail.

I Think the pnfsd-exofs branch should advance down to before the pnfsd-exp-all. It should be the first or second candidate for inclusion.

BTW: You forgot to branch the pnfs-blocks branch last time.

I think that now, since most of the client code is in-tree and all the common code is in. It would be easier to work with a tree that has two separate branches for the 1.block-layout and 2.server branches. And the pnfs-all-latest which merges the two.

something like:

                |----pnfsd(including gfs2_---pnfsd-exofs---pnfsd-exp----pnfsd-spnfs----pnfsd-spnfs-blocks ---|
nfs-linux-next--|                                                                                            + --- pnfs-all-latest
                | --------pnfs-blocks------------------------------------------------------------------------|

* "+" means a merge

It will be much easier to develop this way

usual list of patches:

[PATCH 1/8] nfs_xdr: Move nfs4_string definition out of #ifdef CONFIG_NFS_V4 [PATCH 2/8] exofs: pnfs-tree: Remove pnfs-osd private definitions [PATCH 3/8] pnfs-obj: pnfs_osd_xdr: Remove dead code and cleanup

Intended for upstream

[PATCH 4/8] pnfsd-exofs: pnfs objects server XDR functions [PATCH 5/8] pnfsd-exofs: Add pNFS export support
[PATCH 6/8] pnfsd-exofs: get_device_info implementation. [PATCH 7/8] pnfsd-exofs: Recall layouts on truncate [PATCH 8/8] pnfsd-exofs: layoutreturn pnfs-obj information decoding

New exofs pnfs export patches

Thanks
Boaz