From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Dilger Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/9] exofs: mkexofs Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:40:10 -0700 Message-ID: <20090106084010.GI3932@webber.adilger.int> References: <4947BFAA.4030208@panasas.com> <4947CA5C.50104@panasas.com> <20081229121423.efde9d06.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <495B8D90.1090004@panasas.com> <1230739053.3408.74.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-reply-to: <1230739053.3408.74.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-disposition: inline Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: James Bottomley Cc: Boaz Harrosh , Andrew Morton , avishay@gmail.com, jeff@garzik.org, viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, osd-dev@open-osd.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Dec 31, 2008 15:57 +0000, James Bottomley wrote: > I don't like it mainly because it's not truly a useful general framework > for others to build on. However, as argued above, there might not > actually be such a useful framework, so as long as the only two > consumers (you and Lustre) want an interface like this, I'll put it in. To be clear - Lustre has nothing to do with T10-OSD interfaces. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.