From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] exofs: Kbuild, Headers and osd utils Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 04:27:30 -0500 Message-ID: <49993182.3010707@garzik.org> References: <1234185129-31858-1-git-send-email-bharrosh@panasas.com> <20090216131806X.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> <499928A3.60507@panasas.com> <20090216180028C.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> <49992F99.1060404@panasas.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FUJITA Tomonori , avishay@gmail.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, osd-dev@open-osd.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com, jens.axboe@oracle.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Boaz Harrosh Return-path: In-Reply-To: <49992F99.1060404@panasas.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Boaz Harrosh wrote: > FUJITA Tomonori wrote: >> Boaz Harrosh wrote: >>> Also looking >>> ahead I will have RAID 0, 1, 5, and 6 on objects of different devices. bio >>> is the perfect collector for memory information in this situation. >> You will add such features to exofs, handling multiple devices >> internally? > Multiple objects on Multiple devices, Yes. That sort of feature does not belong in exofs, but somewhat separate. Ideally we should be able to share "MD for OSD" with other OSD filesystems, and the "osdblk" device that I will produce once libosd hits upstream. Jeff