On Tue, Jan 28, 2025 at 04:35:46PM +0000, Day, Timothy wrote: > My biggest question for LSF is around development model: > Our current development model is still orthogonal to what > most other subsystems/drivers do. But as we evolve, how do > we demonstrate that our development model is reasonable? > Sending the initial patches is one thing. Convincing everyone > that the model is sustainable is another. I suspect one of the reasons why most development is happening out-of-tree is pretty much all of the users of Lustre are using distro (and very often, Enterprise) kernels. Are there any people outside of the core Lustre team (most of whom are probably working for DDN?) that use Lustre or can even test Lustre using the upstream kernel? I'll let Andreas to comment further, but from my perspective, if we want to upstreaming Lustre to be successful, perhaps one strategy would be to make it easier for upstream users and developers to use Lustre, perhaps in a smaller scale than what a typical DDN customer would typically use. Cheers, - Ted
