[Lustre-devel] Query to understand the Lustre request/reply message

[Alexey Lyashkov]

On Oct 13, 2010, at 08:42, Nicolas Williams wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:35:13AM -0400, Vilobh Meshram wrote:
>> Thanks a lot Alexey for the reply.The information will be really useful.
>> 
>> Since I am using 1.8.1.1 for my research project I will have to rely on the
>> old API.Since in the source tree prior to 2.0 we do not have a
>> mdt/mdt_handler.c and layout.c files will have to work with the low level
>> buffer management structures(ptlrpc_request,lustre_msg_v2,etc).Do you know a
>> place or a function which make use of the old API which I can use as a
>> reference to write the RPC for my task.
> 
> 
> Compared to the old thing, the new API is much closer to an IDL.  It's a
> good thing.  I strongly recommend that you use it,
> 
main problem - lustre 1.8.1 don't have the new API :)


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Alexey Lyashkov
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