From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "J. Bruce Fields" Subject: Re: [osd-dev] [PATCH 7/9] exofs: mkexofs Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 18:26:37 -0500 Message-ID: <20090101232637.GC31367@fieldses.org> 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> <495C8B65.4010202@panasas.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: James Bottomley , open-osd development , Boaz Harrosh , linux-scsi , jeff@garzik.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, avishay@gmail.com, viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton To: Benny Halevy Return-path: Received: from mail.fieldses.org ([141.211.133.115]:45608 "EHLO fieldses.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750724AbZABAF7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jan 2009 19:05:59 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <495C8B65.4010202@panasas.com> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 11:22:45AM +0200, Benny Halevy wrote: > On Dec. 31, 2008, 17:57 +0200, 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. > > Not to mention pnfs over objects which is coming up around the corner. > The pnfs-obj layout driver will use the osd initiator library as well > for distributed data I/O access (while the metadata server, to be based > on exofs accesses the OSD for metadata and security ops too) What state is that project in right now? --b.