Re: [PATCH 14/18] nfsd: pNFS block layout driver | linux-xfs

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On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 12:16:58PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
+file system must sit on shared storage (typically iSCSI) that is accessible
+to the clients as well as the server.  The file system needs to either sit
+directly on the exported volume, or on a RAID 0 using the MD software RAID
+driver with the version 1 superblock format.  If the filesystem uses sits
+on a RAID 0 device the clients will automatically stripe their I/O over
+multiple LUNs.
+
+On the server pNFS block volume support is automatically if the file system
s/automatically/automatically enabled/.

So there's no server-side configuration required at all?
The only required configuration is the fencing helper script if you
want to be able to fence a non-responding client.  For simple test setups
everything will just work out of the box.

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