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Make pNFS block easier to deploy #84

Open chucklever opened 2 months ago

chucklever commented 2 months ago

I would like to see more deployment of XFS with block layout. This needs to be ready for the pNFS with NVMe extension.

However, currently there is little documentation for this, and none of what exists is fresh or easily findable. The troubleshooting messages are not understandable by administrators. Setting up iSCSI is difficult. We also have no regular testing of this deployment scenario.

Therefore, we want:

chucklever commented 1 month ago

I've constructed a framework within kdevops that can provision an iSCSI system and set up an XFS export with pNFS enabled. Specific Kconfig options for pNFS block have been added to the gitr, pynfs, and fstests workflows.