Re: [PATCH 0/8] rados block device and ceph refactor

[Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>]

On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 16:11:55 -0700 (PDT) Sage Weil wrote:

> On Fri, 13 Aug 2010, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 10:40:32 -0700 Sage Weil wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > The rados block device (rbd) implements a network block device backed by 
> > > the Ceph distributed object store (think nbd/iSCSI, but distributed and 
> > > fault tolerant).  At the suggestion of Christoph and James, this version 
> > > of the patchset factors out the common Ceph bits (the network protocol, 
> > > cluster membership, and object storage parts) into a libceph module 
> > > (currently in net/ceph/ and include/linux/ceph/) that is shared by the 
> > > file system component (fs/ceph) and rbd (drivers/block/rbd.c). The first 
> > > few patches lay some groundwork, #7 moves does the ceph -> libceph+ceph 
> > > split, and #8 adds the block device driver.
> > 
> > Hi,
> > Did patch #7 make it to any mailing lists?
> > I didn't receive it.
> 
> Sorry, I think vger ate it (it's 850KB).  You can see it here:
> 
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client.git;a=commit;h=a6da68196474aabcdcc2f5dab64c0b55ca5090b7

Yes, vger has a limit of 400 KB on lkml and netdev.
Other lists are probably less than that.

David M. wrote on 13-AUG-2007:

"The posting limit is 400K for linux-kernel, netdev, and one
or two of the other lists."

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~Randy
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