This is very helpful, thank you ! Is this planned for kilo ?
> -----Original Message----- > From: John Griffith [mailto:john.griffi...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, November 4, 2014 5:00 PM > To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Cc: Karen Xie > Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [cinder] Adding support for iSCSI helper > > On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 12:40 AM, Anish Bhatt <an...@chelsio.com> wrote: > > Do the minimum driver features listed here > > https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Cinder#Minimum_Driver_Features still > > hold if I’m trying to add support for something that is a drop in > > replacement for iet/tgt that has no volume support. Does this still > > need to shipped as a driver plugin ? > > > > > > > > If the volume support stuff is a hard requirement, is it acceptable to > > reuse the LVM backend already shipped with cinder (or brick, though > > I’m not a 100% sure of the brick-cinder separation). Are there any > > examples of this available at all ? > > > > -Anish > > > > > > > > One socket to bind them all. > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > OpenStack-dev mailing list > > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > > > > Hi Anish, > > No IMO those requirements are specific for Backend Storage Devices and the > drivers submitted for them. Target Helpers are a different category. That > being said, I've been trying to get us away from the current model we have > of the Target Helper/Driver inheritance. We almost had this in Juno but it > was very late in the release and I wasn't comfortable releasing it right > before > RC. > > Since then a number of changes have gone in and I've had to do some > rework of it. You can get an idea of the direction I'm hoping to go here > [1]. If > you have a new Target Helper you'd like to submit it would be great if you > took a look at this model going forward, it should make life a good bit easier > for you. Feel free to grab me on IRC and maybe I can just roll your addition > into the work I've got in progress already. > > Note that the follow up patch that actually separates the Target from the > Volume Driver has been abandoned and I'm going to need to rewrite it. > > Thanks, > John > > [1]: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/131860/ > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
