Re: [LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] Lustre filesystem upstreaming

["Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>]

On Tue, Jan 28, 2025 at 04:35:46PM +0000, Day, Timothy wrote:
> My biggest question for LSF is around development model:
> Our current development model is still orthogonal to what
> most other subsystems/drivers do. But as we evolve, how do
> we demonstrate that our development model is reasonable?
> Sending the initial patches is one thing. Convincing everyone
> that the model is sustainable is another.

I suspect one of the reasons why most development is happening out-of-tree
is pretty much all of the users of Lustre are using distro (and very
often, Enterprise) kernels.  Are there any people outside of the core
Lustre team (most of whom are probably working for DDN?) that use
Lustre or can even test Lustre using the upstream kernel?

I'll let Andreas to comment further, but from my perspective, if we
want to upstreaming Lustre to be successful, perhaps one strategy
would be to make it easier for upstream users and developers to use
Lustre, perhaps in a smaller scale than what a typical DDN customer
would typically use.

Cheers,

					- Ted