From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Randy Dunlap Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] rados block device and ceph refactor Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 19:32:33 -0700 Message-ID: <20100813193233.80f09131.rdunlap@xenotime.net> References: <1281721240-26130-1-git-send-email-sage@newdream.net> <20100813153706.ee61c94e.rdunlap@xenotime.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org, hch@lst.de, akpm@linux-foundation.org, yehuda@hq.newdream.net To: Sage Weil Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: ceph-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org 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." --- ~Randy *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code ***