Re: RFC: drop the T10 OSD code and its users

2017-04-19 Thread Jens Axboe
On Wed, Apr 12 2017, 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 the > other two users (osdblk and exofs) were simple example of it's usage. > > The code has been mostly unmaintained

Re: RFC: drop the T10 OSD code and its users

2017-04-18 Thread Chandy, John
As one of those academics that Boaz was talking about, we do use the OSD driver for various research projects including support for OSD in parallel file systems like OrangeFS and Lustre. John. > On Apr 18, 2017, at 12:24 PM, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > > On 04/12/2017 07:01 PM, Christoph Hellwig wr

Re: RFC: drop the T10 OSD code and its users

2017-04-18 Thread Boaz Harrosh
On 04/12/2017 07:01 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: Hi Sir Christoph > The only real user of the T10 OSD protocol, the pNFS object layout > driver never went to the point of having shipping products, and the > other two users (osdblk and exofs) were simple example of it's usage. > I understand why

Re: RFC: drop the T10 OSD code and its users

2017-04-13 Thread Martin K. Petersen
Christoph, > The only real user of the T10 OSD protocol, the pNFS object layout > driver never went to the point of having shipping products, and the > other two users (osdblk and exofs) were simple example of it's usage. > > The code has been mostly unmaintained for years and is getting in the >

RFC: drop the T10 OSD code and its users

2017-04-12 Thread Christoph Hellwig
The only real user of the T10 OSD protocol, the pNFS object layout driver never went to the point of having shipping products, and the other two users (osdblk and exofs) were simple example of it's usage. The code has been mostly unmaintained for years and is getting in the way of block / SCSI cha