From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>,
Avishay Traeger <avishay@gmail.com>,
open-osd development <osd-dev@open-osd.org>,
linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/9] exofs: mkexofs
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 10:38:41 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090104153841.GA16569@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4960D3CA.2000202@panasas.com>
On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 05:20:42PM +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
>
> User-mode Interface is another matter. There are some ideas and some already
> implemented.
> [Hosted on open-osd.org
> see: http://git.open-osd.org/gitweb.cgi?p=osc-osd/.git;a=summary
> look inside the osd-initiator directory]
> And I have a toy interface that adds no new entries into the Kernel in
> the form of an OSDVFS module, that will let you access the raw OSD device
> through the VFS name-space.
>
> The lack of any user-mode API is just the lack of any current need/priority,
> or that I'm the only one working on OSD. But nothing that could not be solved
> in two weeks of pragmatic work. Surly it's not a paradigm problem.
For mkfs/repair direct use by databases, etc you want a userspace
library, too. The easiest way to get started would to simply take the
kernel libosd and make it work ontop of SG_IO.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-04 15:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 85+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-16 14:48 [PATCHSET 0/9] exofs (was osdfs) Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-16 14:48 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-16 14:52 ` [PATCH 1/9] exofs: osd Swiss army knife Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-16 14:52 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-29 20:29 ` Andrew Morton
2008-12-31 15:33 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-31 19:26 ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-01 14:44 ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-01-02 16:52 ` Pavel Machek
2009-01-04 8:43 ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-01-04 20:03 ` Pavel Machek
2009-01-05 9:01 ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-01-05 9:36 ` Pavel Machek
2008-12-16 15:15 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-16 15:15 ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-01-07 15:47 ` [osd-dev] " Benny Halevy
2009-01-13 13:55 ` Alan Cox
2009-01-13 14:43 ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-01-13 14:52 ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-01-13 15:09 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-01-13 15:17 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-01-13 15:28 ` Benny Halevy
2008-12-16 15:17 ` [PATCH 2/9] exofs: file and file_inode operations Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-16 15:17 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-29 20:34 ` Andrew Morton
2008-12-31 15:36 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-16 15:21 ` [PATCH 3/9] exofs: symlink_inode and fast_symlink_inode operations Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-16 15:21 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-29 20:35 ` Andrew Morton
2008-12-16 15:22 ` [PATCH 4/9] exofs: address_space_operations Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-16 15:22 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-29 20:45 ` Andrew Morton
2008-12-31 15:35 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-16 15:28 ` [PATCH 5/9] exofs: dir_inode and directory operations Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-16 15:28 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-29 20:47 ` Andrew Morton
2008-12-31 15:33 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-16 15:31 ` [PATCH 6/9] exofs: super_operations and file_system_type Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-16 15:31 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-17 22:23 ` Marcin Slusarz
2008-12-18 8:41 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-29 20:50 ` Andrew Morton
2008-12-16 15:33 ` [PATCH 7/9] exofs: mkexofs Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-16 15:33 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-29 20:14 ` Andrew Morton
2008-12-31 15:19 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-31 15:57 ` James Bottomley
2009-01-01 9:22 ` [osd-dev] " Benny Halevy
2009-01-01 9:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-01-01 14:23 ` Benny Halevy
2009-01-01 14:28 ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-01-01 18:12 ` Jörn Engel
2009-01-01 18:12 ` Jörn Engel
2009-01-01 23:26 ` J. Bruce Fields
2009-01-02 7:14 ` Benny Halevy
2009-01-04 15:20 ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-01-04 15:38 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2009-01-12 18:12 ` James Bottomley
2009-01-12 19:23 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-01-12 19:56 ` James Bottomley
2009-01-12 20:22 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-01-12 23:25 ` James Bottomley
2009-01-13 13:03 ` [osd-dev] " Benny Halevy
2009-01-13 13:24 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-01-13 13:32 ` Benny Halevy
2009-01-13 13:44 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-01-13 14:03 ` Alan Cox
2009-01-13 14:17 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-01-13 16:14 ` Alan Cox
2009-01-13 17:21 ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-01-21 18:13 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-01-21 18:44 ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-01-12 19:56 ` James Bottomley
2009-01-12 22:48 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-01-06 8:40 ` Andreas Dilger
2008-12-31 19:25 ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-01 13:33 ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-01-02 22:46 ` James Bottomley
2009-01-04 8:59 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-16 15:36 ` [PATCH 8/9] exofs: Documentation Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-16 15:36 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-18 7:47 ` Pavel Machek
2008-12-18 8:32 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-16 15:38 ` [PATCH 9/9] fs: Add exofs to Kernel build Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-16 15:38 ` Boaz Harrosh
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