Re: [LSF/MM TOPIC] Springfield: smart and automated storage

[James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>]

On Sat, 2018-01-27 at 09:37 +0100, Jan Tulak wrote:
> Springfield is a collection of projects unifying multiple levels of
> the storage stack and providing a general API for automation, health
> and status monitoring, as well as sane and easy configuration across
> multiple levels of the storage stack. It is a scalable solution,
> working from a single node to large deployments with a mix of base
> metal, containers and VMs. For the first time, it was presented on
> Vault 2017 in a birds of a feather session.
> 
> Springfield builds upon and enhances the existing work of those
> projects:
> * udisks
> * libblockdev
> * blivet
> * libstoragemgmt
> 
> It is a coordinated effort to overcome many of the shortcomings of
> the current situation and provide a unified approach to storage
> management, so there is nothing like a binary or a library with the
> name “Springfield.”
> 
> An example of things we are trying to tackle is a useful storage
> reporting, like notifications about filesystem being full, especially
> with thin provisioning and multiple levels of the storage stack,
> where
> the user-visible status is not a true representation of what is
> happening underneath.
> 
> We want to see how the community sees this effort. What shortcomings
> of the current situation in storage layering can Springfield address
> (is there something we don’t see, but a project like this could
> help)? How would you use it, or what would make it more useful to
> you?

Do you have a link to the project page and the source tree(s)?

James