>Ken, my apologies for this misstatement. I guess that my faulty memory >is to blame for the fact that I didn't recall the MacOS code was made >publicly available for download.
No problem. Back when I gave the talk at LUG the source wasn't available yet due to issues here, but we got that worked out and I was pushing my changes to a publically available Oracle git repo. I did send out email to everyone about that, but I'm sure it was easy to miss. >I don't think I've ever seen patches sent from you to either Oracle or >Whamcloud, and unfortunately nobody on our side has had the bandwidth or >user demand/funding to be pulling such changes either. Well, I did actually submit patches to Oracle to start the process of working out at least the portability issues, but I believe that was when Oracle started to implode the Lustre group so things sort of stalled. I'll take 75% of the blame for that if we assign 25% to Larry Ellison :-) >This isn't strictly correct. It would be possible to change the libcfs >portability layer to export the same API as the Linux kernel to MacOS >and Windows. This would simplify getting the client into the Linux >kernel, but still allow a native client on MacOS. Well ... that shifts the burden to cross-platform people basically having to re-implment the Linux kernel. For some things, that's possible without too much pain. For other things, it's not. --Ken _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
