From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH] osdblk: a Linux block device for OSD objects Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:46:02 -0400 Message-ID: <49D4EBCA.4000304@garzik.org> References: <20090402015455.GA14087@havoc.gtf.org> <49D4AF12.40708@panasas.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: open-osd mailing-list , LKML , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, axboe@kernel.dk, Andrew Morton To: Boaz Harrosh Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:41271 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1764879AbZDBQqJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Apr 2009 12:46:09 -0400 In-Reply-To: <49D4AF12.40708@panasas.com> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Boaz Harrosh wrote: > On 04/02/2009 04:54 AM, Jeff Garzik wrote: >> As I promised in older exofs threads, here is a client for libosd >> _other_ than exofs. This block driver exports a single OSD object >> as a Linux block device. >> >> See the comment block at the top of the driver for usage instructions. >> >> >> >> drivers/block/Kconfig | 16 + >> drivers/block/Makefile | 1 >> drivers/block/osdblk.c | 563 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> 3 files changed, 580 insertions(+) >> > > Forwarding to open-osd ml > > Jeff is it OK if I pick up this patch through my tree and will push it > together with the other pending patches for 2.6.31 Kernel? I intend to Please don't add it to any repo just yet. It is still changing rapidly, and that would just slow me down, at the moment. More comments later... Jeff