On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 11:22:45AM +0200, Benny Halevy wrote: > On Dec. 31, 2008, 17:57 +0200, James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I don't like it mainly because it's not truly a useful general framework > > for others to build on. However, as argued above, there might not > > actually be such a useful framework, so as long as the only two > > consumers (you and Lustre) want an interface like this, I'll put it in. > > Not to mention pnfs over objects which is coming up around the corner. > The pnfs-obj layout driver will use the osd initiator library as well > for distributed data I/O access (while the metadata server, to be based > on exofs accesses the OSD for metadata and security ops too) What state is that project in right now? --b. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html