pNFS support in cinder/brick for NFS operations

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The NFS drivers in cinder/brick use NFS 3.0 by default on the client side for NFS communications. NFS4.1 or pNFS seems to be a better alternative considering performance and hence needs to be enabled as default option in brick for NFS related operations. The NFS clients will start by using NFS 4.1 for mouting exports, in case of any failures will fallback to older NFS version. We might need it in nova as well, its a matter of further analysis.

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Status:
Complete
Approver:
John Griffith
Priority:
Low
Drafter:
Navneet
Direction:
Approved
Assignee:
Navneet
Definition:
Obsolete
Series goal:
Accepted for future
Implementation:
Needs Code Review
Milestone target:
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Started by
John Griffith
Completed by
Sean McGinnis

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(smcginnis): Marking obsolete as this has been sitting out there for a long time. If this is still needed, please submit a new bp.

Gerrit topic: https://review.openstack.org/#q,topic:bp/pnfs,n,z

Addressed by: https://review.openstack.org/71279
    Brick support for pNFS

-> Implemented

It should be marked as Implemented.

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