From: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
To: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
open-osd development <osd-dev@open-osd.org>,
Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>,
linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
jeff@garzik.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, avishay@gmail.com,
viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [osd-dev] [PATCH 7/9] exofs: mkexofs
Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2009 09:14:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <495DBEF0.1040801@panasas.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090101232637.GC31367@fieldses.org>
On Jan. 02, 2009, 1:26 +0200, "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 11:22:45AM +0200, Benny Halevy wrote:
>> On Dec. 31, 2008, 17:57 +0200, James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> wrote:
>>> I don't like it mainly because it's not truly a useful general framework
>>> for others to build on. However, as argued above, there might not
>>> actually be such a useful framework, so as long as the only two
>>> consumers (you and Lustre) want an interface like this, I'll put it in.
>> Not to mention pnfs over objects which is coming up around the corner.
>> The pnfs-obj layout driver will use the osd initiator library as well
>> for distributed data I/O access (while the metadata server, to be based
>> on exofs accesses the OSD for metadata and security ops too)
>
> What state is that project in right now?
I hope to release the pnfs-obj layout driver in a few weeks,
after finishing with cleaning up the nfs41 and pnfs patch sets.
Still, there's more work to be done on the back end side, exporting
exofs over (p)NFS, and then we'd be able to provide full pnfs
over objects functionality.
Benny
>
> --b.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-02 7:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-16 14:48 [PATCHSET 0/9] exofs (was osdfs) Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-16 14:52 ` [PATCH 1/9] exofs: osd Swiss army knife Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-29 20:29 ` Andrew Morton
2008-12-31 15:33 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-31 19:26 ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-01 14:44 ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-01-02 16:52 ` Pavel Machek
2009-01-04 8:43 ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-01-04 20:03 ` Pavel Machek
2009-01-05 9:01 ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-01-05 9:36 ` Pavel Machek
2008-12-16 15:15 ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-01-07 15:47 ` [osd-dev] " Benny Halevy
2009-01-13 13:55 ` Alan Cox
2009-01-13 14:43 ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-01-13 14:52 ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-01-13 15:09 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-01-13 15:17 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-01-13 15:28 ` Benny Halevy
2008-12-16 15:17 ` [PATCH 2/9] exofs: file and file_inode operations Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-29 20:34 ` Andrew Morton
2008-12-31 15:36 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-16 15:21 ` [PATCH 3/9] exofs: symlink_inode and fast_symlink_inode operations Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-29 20:35 ` Andrew Morton
2008-12-16 15:22 ` [PATCH 4/9] exofs: address_space_operations Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-29 20:45 ` Andrew Morton
2008-12-31 15:35 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-16 15:28 ` [PATCH 5/9] exofs: dir_inode and directory operations Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-29 20:47 ` Andrew Morton
2008-12-31 15:33 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-16 15:31 ` [PATCH 6/9] exofs: super_operations and file_system_type Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-17 22:23 ` Marcin Slusarz
2008-12-18 8:41 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-29 20:50 ` Andrew Morton
2008-12-16 15:33 ` [PATCH 7/9] exofs: mkexofs Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-29 20:14 ` Andrew Morton
2008-12-31 15:19 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-31 15:57 ` James Bottomley
2009-01-01 9:22 ` [osd-dev] " Benny Halevy
2009-01-01 9:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-01-01 14:23 ` Benny Halevy
2009-01-01 14:28 ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-01-01 18:12 ` Jörn Engel
2009-01-01 23:26 ` J. Bruce Fields
2009-01-02 7:14 ` Benny Halevy [this message]
2009-01-04 15:20 ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-01-04 15:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-01-12 18:12 ` James Bottomley
2009-01-12 19:23 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-01-12 19:56 ` James Bottomley
2009-01-12 20:22 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-01-12 23:25 ` James Bottomley
2009-01-13 13:03 ` [osd-dev] " Benny Halevy
2009-01-13 13:24 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-01-13 13:32 ` Benny Halevy
2009-01-13 13:44 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-01-13 14:03 ` Alan Cox
2009-01-13 14:17 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-01-13 16:14 ` Alan Cox
2009-01-13 17:21 ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-01-21 18:13 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-01-21 18:44 ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-01-12 22:48 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-01-06 8:40 ` Andreas Dilger
2008-12-31 19:25 ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-01 13:33 ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-01-02 22:46 ` James Bottomley
2009-01-04 8:59 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-16 15:36 ` [PATCH 8/9] exofs: Documentation Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-18 7:47 ` Pavel Machek
2008-12-18 8:32 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-12-16 15:38 ` [PATCH 9/9] fs: Add exofs to Kernel build Boaz Harrosh
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