Working Group: NFSv4
Area Director: David Harrington
Document Author/Shepherd: Spencer Shepler (sshepler@microsoft.com)
Internet Draft:
draft-ietf-nfsv4-pnfs-block-disk-protection-01.txt
(1.a) Spencer Shepler (sshepler@microsoft.com) is the document shepherd.
I have reviewed the document and believe it is ready for further
review by the IESG and publication as a standards track RFC.
(1.b) The document has received necessary and sufficient review.
(1.c) Review by area experts or outside parties is not needed.
(1.d) The shepherd has no outstanding concerns and there are no
IPR disclosures for this work.
(1.e) There is strong WG consensus for this document's content.
(1.f) No dissent has been expressed in relation to this document or
the review of such.
(1.g) The document meets all ID nits.
(1.h) The document has split references and normative references
are of an appropriate form.
(1.i) The IANA section exists and is correct for the document's content.
(1.j) The GUID definition made in the document is appropriate and correct.
(1.k) The IESG approval announcement includes a Document
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Technical Summary
The NFSv4.1 protocol allows for the location of file system data
to be expressed in the form of "layouts". The layout for a
particular file identifies location and access information such
that the NFSv4.1 client may "directly" access the data without
interaction with the primary or NFSv4.1 meta-data server.
In the instance of the pNFS block layout type (defined in RFC 5663)
the client accesses data via traditional block storage protocols.
The NFSv4.1 pNFS block enabled client, by definition, will have
read/write access to the block devices of the NFSv4.1 server.
This access presents a problem for the client operating environment
in that identification of these NFSv4.1 pNFS block devices is not
well defined. This I-D provides the needed identification by
defining and documenting a GPT GUID value for pNFS block devices.
By using this GPT GUID, the NFSv4.1 pNFS block server can now
label the block devices under its control and thus eliminating the
immediate conflict that may occur at the NFSv4.1 client operating system.
Working Group Summary
The NFSv4.1 working group had immediate consensus for the need
of the definition/documentation of an identifying mechanism for
the pNFS block layout.
Document Quality
GPT GUID usage is well understood and implemented. This I-D
provides a documentation/definition point. A central
registration mechanism does not exist for GPT GUIDs. Given the
use case of NFSv4.1 pNFS block devices, the documentation of
the pNFS GPT GUID in an IETF RFC best suites the need of the
community.