From: Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@redhat.com>
To: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
"linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [LSF/MM TOPIC] linux servers as a storage server - what's missing?
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 10:59:43 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EF2026F.2090506@redhat.com> (raw)
One common thing that I see a lot of these days is an increasing number of
platforms that are built on our stack as storage servers. Ranging from the
common linux based storage/NAS devices up to various distributed systems.
Almost all of them use our common stack - software RAID, LVM, XFS/ext4 and samba.
At last year's SNIA developers conference, it was clear that Microsoft is
putting a lot of effort into enhancing windows 8 server as a storage server with
both support for a pNFS server and of course SMB. I think that linux (+samba) is
ahead of the windows based storage appliances today, but they are putting
together a very aggressive list of features.
I think that it would be useful and interesting to take a slot at this year's
LSF to see how we are doing in this space. How large do we need to scale for an
appliance? What kind of work is needed (support for the copy offload system
call? better support for out of band notifications like those used in "thinly
provisioned" SCSI devices? management API's? Ease of use CLI work? SMB2.2 support?).
The goal would be to see what technical gaps we have that need more active
development in, not just a wish list :)
Ric
next reply other threads:[~2011-12-21 16:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-21 15:59 Ric Wheeler [this message]
2011-12-22 8:14 ` [LSF/MM TOPIC] linux servers as a storage server - what's missing? Shyam_Iyer
2011-12-22 8:14 ` Shyam_Iyer
2011-12-22 15:58 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-12-22 20:54 ` Shyam_Iyer
2011-12-22 20:54 ` Shyam_Iyer
2011-12-23 3:06 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-12-23 4:35 ` Shyam_Iyer
2011-12-23 4:35 ` Shyam_Iyer
2012-01-09 12:18 ` Hannes Reinecke
2012-01-09 12:59 ` Tom Coughlan
2012-01-10 6:53 ` Ric Wheeler
2012-01-20 8:55 ` Hannes Reinecke
2012-01-19 16:17 ` [LSF/MM TOPIC] linux servers as a storage server - what'smissing? Loke, Chetan
2012-01-19 16:17 ` Loke, Chetan
2012-01-19 16:19 ` Ric Wheeler
2012-01-19 16:26 ` Loke, Chetan
2012-01-19 16:26 ` Loke, Chetan
2012-01-19 16:29 ` Ric Wheeler
2012-01-19 17:32 ` Loke, Chetan
2012-01-19 17:32 ` Loke, Chetan
2012-01-19 17:44 ` Ric Wheeler
2012-01-19 21:30 ` Loke, Chetan
2012-01-19 21:30 ` Loke, Chetan
2012-01-19 21:39 ` Ric Wheeler
2012-01-24 17:05 ` Loke, Chetan
2012-01-24 17:05 ` Loke, Chetan
2012-01-24 18:13 ` Ric Wheeler
2012-01-26 22:24 ` Dave Chinner
2012-01-26 22:29 ` Ric Wheeler
2012-01-03 19:26 ` [LSF/MM TOPIC][ATTEND] linux servers as a storage server - what's missing? Jeff Layton
2012-01-03 19:32 ` Chuck Lever
2012-01-17 21:16 ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-01-17 21:25 ` Chuck Lever
2012-01-24 21:36 ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-01-24 23:13 ` Ric Wheeler
2012-01-25 19:05 ` Christopher R. Hertel
2012-01-25 20:25 ` Christopher R. Hertel
2012-01-25 21:56 ` Roland Dreier
2012-01-25 22:09 ` Christopher R. Hertel
2012-01-26 21:52 ` Andy Grover
2012-01-26 11:15 ` Bart Van Assche
2012-01-18 17:00 ` [LSF/MM TOPIC] " Roland Dreier
2012-01-18 17:51 ` Ric Wheeler
2012-01-18 18:46 ` Roland Dreier
2012-01-18 18:51 ` Bart Van Assche
2012-01-18 19:00 ` Roland Dreier
2012-01-19 8:16 ` Rolf Eike Beer
2012-01-19 17:50 ` Loke, Chetan
2012-01-19 17:50 ` Loke, Chetan
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