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>NFS developers, a group of people from the High End Computing 
>Interagency Working Group File
>Systems and I/O (HECIWG FSIO), which is a funding oversight group 
>for file systems and
>storage government funded research, has formed a project to extend 
>the POSIX I/O API.
>The extensions have mostly to do with distributed computing/cluster 
>computing/high end computing
>extensions.
>
>Things like
>openg()  - on process opens a file and gets a key that is passed to 
>lots of processes which
>use the key to get a handle (great for thousands of processes opening a file)
>readx/writex - scattergather readwrite - more appropriate and 
>complete than the real time extended read/write
>statlite() - asking for stat info without requiring completely 
>accurate info like dates and sizes.  This is good
>for running stat against a file that is open by hundreds of 
>processes which currently forces callbacks
>and the hundreds of processes to flush.
>
>Some of these things might be useful for pNFS and NFSv4.
>
>etc.
>
>In talking to Andy Adamson, we realized that NFS ACL's are a good 
>candidate for POSIX standardization.
>There may be other items that might be good for standardization as well.
>
>The HECIWG FSIO POSIX team has already gotten the wheels rolling and 
>has gotten agreement
>to do the standardization effort within the OpenGroup.  We have an 
>official project in the platform
>group in the OpenGroup and will publish man pages for review and 
>possible standardization
>as an extension to POSIX.
>The website is at
>http://www.opengroup.org/platform/hecewg/
>
>There are man pages for most of the proposed extensions at that 
>site.  We will be putting more
>out there in a few weeks.
>
>We in the HECIWG would welcome putting forth any NFS related 
>calls/utilities in our POSIX
>extension effort.
>We would need someone to work with in the NFS community to give us 
>the man pages
>and point at example implementations.
>We would be happy to do the legwork of getting the documents done 
>and the like.
>
>I also would be happy to add any of you to the POSIX HEC Extensions 
>mailing list etc.
>if you want to monitor this effort.
>
>Andy and I felt that since we have the official POSIX Extensions 
>project spun up, getting a few things
>from the NFSv4/pNFS community into the POSIX Standard would be nice 
>way to get leverage.
>
>I am very interested in your thoughts.
>Thanks
>Gary Grider
>Los Alamos National Lab
>HECIWG


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