On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 07:12:40PM +0200, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote: > On 26.06.21 08:30, longli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Hi, > > > From: Long Li <longli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > Azure Blob storage provides scalable and durable data storage for Azure. > > (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/blobs/) > > It's a bit hard to quickly find out the exact semantics of that (w/o fully > reading the library code ...). :( > > > This driver adds support for accelerated access to Azure Blob storage. As an > > alternative to REST APIs, it provides a fast data path that uses host native > > network stack and secure direct data link for storage server access. > > I don't think that yet another misc device with some very specific API > is a good thing. We should have a more generic userland interface. > > Maybe a file system ? This can already be done if I'm not mistaken: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/storage-how-to-mount-container-linux https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/network-file-system-protocol-support-how-to > > OTOH, I've been considering adding other kind of blob stores (eg. venti > and similar things) and inventing an own subsys for that, so we'd have > some more universal interface. Unfortunately always been busy with other > things. > > Maybe we should go that route instead of introducing yet another device > specific uapi. This work of course does not preclude anyone from going that route. Wei. > > > --mtx > > -- > --- > Hinweis: unverschlüsselte E-Mails können leicht abgehört und manipuliert > werden ! Für eine vertrauliche Kommunikation senden Sie bitte ihren > GPG/PGP-Schlüssel zu. > --- > Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult > Free software and Linux embedded engineering > info@xxxxxxxxx -- +49-151-27565287
