From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Evgeniy Polyakov Subject: Re: [0/3] Distributed storage. Mirror algo extension for automatic recovery. Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 14:34:59 +0400 Message-ID: <20071027103459.GA14698@2ka.mipt.ru> References: <20071018191741.GA848@2ka.mipt.ru> <20071026135538.d22125a2.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: Andrew Morton Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071026135538.d22125a2.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Hi Andrew. On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 01:55:38PM -0700, Andrew Morton (akpm@linux-foundation.org) wrote: > > I'm pleased to announce sixth release of the distributed storage > > subsystem, which allows to form a storage on top of remote and local > > nodes, which in turn can be exported to another storage as a node to > > form tree-like storages. > > I went back and re-read last month's discussion and I'm not seeing any > reason why we shouldn't start thinking about merging this. > > How close is it to that stage? A peek at your development blog indicates > that things are still changing at a moderate rate? I completed storage layer development itself, the only remaining todo item is to implement new redundancy algorithm, but I did not see major demand on that, so it will stay for now with low priority. I will use DST as a transport layer for distributed filesystem, and probably that will require additional features, I have no clean design so far, but right now I have nothing in the pipe to commit to DST. -- Evgeniy Polyakov