From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Douglas Gilbert Subject: Re: remove exofs, the T10 OSD code and block/scsi bidi support V3 Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2018 17:35:07 +0100 Message-ID: <5c1952ce-988e-45be-db01-0cf7277be0f5@interlog.com> References: <20181111133211.13926-1-hch@lst.de> Reply-To: dgilbert@interlog.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20181111133211.13926-1-hch@lst.de> Content-Language: en-CA Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Christoph Hellwig , axboe@kernel.dk, martin.petersen@oracle.com, ooo@electrozaur.com Cc: Johannes Thumshirn , Benjamin Block , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On 2018-11-11 2:32 p.m., Christoph Hellwig wrote: > The only real user of the T10 OSD protocol, the pNFS object layout > driver never went to the point of having shipping products, and we > removed it 1.5 years ago. Exofs is just a simple example without > real life users. > > The code has been mostly unmaintained for years and is getting in the > way of block / SCSI changes, so I think it's finally time to drop it. > > Quote from Boaz: > > "As I said then. It is used in Universities for studies and experiments. > Every once in a while. I get an email with questions and reports. > > But yes feel free to remove the all thing!! > > I guess I can put it up on github. In a public tree. > > Just that I will need to forward port it myself, til now you guys > been doing this for me ;-)" > > Now the last time this caused a bit of a stir, but still no actual users, > not even for SG_IO passthrough commands. What?? Do any Linux distros track what commands are sent to any (or all) of the SG_IO passthroughs? I would hope that the last part of that sentence remains unprovable. Doug Gilbert "I've told you a million times, don't exaggerate!"