On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 05:05:29PM +0200, Sylvain Munaut wrote: > Hi, > Hi, > I've been working on getting a working blktap driver allowing to > access ceph RBD block devices without relying on the RBD kernel driver > and it finally got to a point where, it works and is testable. > Great! Ceph distributed block storage is cool. > Some of the advantages are: > - Easier to update to newer RBD version > - Allows functionality only available in the userspace RBD library > (write cache, layering, ...) > - Less issue when you have OSD as domU on the same dom0 > - Contains crash to user space :p (they shouldn't happen, but ...) > > It's still an early prototype, but if you want to give it a shot and > give feedback. > > You can find the code there https://github.com/smunaut/blktap/tree/rbd > (rbd branch). > > Currently the username, poolname and image name are hardcoded ... > (look for FIXME in the code). I'll get to that next, once I figured > the best format for arguments. > If you have time to write up some lines about steps required to test this, that'd be nice, it'll help people to test this stuff. Thanks, -- Pasi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
