From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Subject: Re: remove exofs and the T10 OSD code V2 To: Christoph Hellwig , ooo@electrozaur.com, martin.petersen@oracle.com Cc: Nick Desaulniers , Nathan Chancellor , Linus Torvalds , osd-dev@open-osd.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20181027082019.20838-1-hch@lst.de> From: Jens Axboe Message-ID: Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2018 14:42:12 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20181027082019.20838-1-hch@lst.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 List-ID: On 10/27/18 2:20 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > The only real user of the T10 OSD protocol, the pNFS object layout > driver never went to the point of having shipping products, and we > removed it 1.5 years ago. Exofs is just a simple example without > real life users. > > The code has been mostly unmaintained for years and is getting in the > way of block / SCSI changes, so I think it's finally time to drop it. > > Quote from Boaz: > > "As I said then. It is used in Universities for studies and experiments. > Every once in a while. I get an email with questions and reports. > > But yes feel free to remove the all thing!! > > I guess I can put it up on github. In a public tree. > > Just that I will need to forward port it myself, til now you guys > been doing this for me ;-)" LGTM, for both: Acked-by: Jens Axboe -- Jens Axboe