Hi George, > Yes; qemu knows how to be a Xen PV block back-end. Very interesting. Is there documentation about this somewhere ? I had a look some time ago and it was really not very clear. Things like what Xen version support this. And with which features ( indirect descriptors, persistent grants, discard, flush, ...) and/or which limitation. > One of the reasons for stopping work on blktap3 (AIUI) was that it > should in theory have performance characteristics similar to blktap3, And did anyone check the theory currently ? :) > and tends to get newer protocols like ceph "for free" (i.e., > implemented by someone else). Yes I can definitely see the appeal. Cheers, Sylvain -- 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