From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [Lsf-pc] [LSF/MM TOPIC] [ATTEND] Storage management (API & Library) Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:44:11 -0500 Message-ID: <20120125174411.GB12620@infradead.org> References: <4F19A981.4080502@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from 173-166-109-252-newengland.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([173.166.109.252]:54097 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756429Ab2AYRoN (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:44:13 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4F19A981.4080502@redhat.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Tony Asleson Cc: lsf-pc@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org There's another project which is creating a very ad-hoc storage management abstraction, the nova-volume code in openstack. Right now it supports iSCSI with a few vendor-specific extensions for management, RBD and sheepdog, but it looks like the numbers of vendors that want to be supported is growing. See https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/master/nova/volume/driver.py and other files in that directory for the little bits that exist at the moment.