>>>>> "Bernd" == Bernd Schubert <bernd.schubert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: Bernd> We from the Fraunhofer FhGFS team would like to also see the T10 Bernd> DIF/DIX API exposed to user space, so that we could make use of Bernd> it for our FhGFS file system. And I think this feature is not Bernd> only useful for file systems, but in general, scientific Bernd> applications, databases, etc also would benefit from insurance of Bernd> data integrity. I'm attending a SNIA meeting today to discuss a (cross-OS) data integrity aware API. We'll see what comes out of that. With the Linux hat on I'm still mainly interested in pursuing the sys_dio interface Joel and I proposed last year. We have good experience with that I/O model and it suits applications that want to interact with the protection information well. libaio is also on my list. But obviously any help and input is appreciated... -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering -- 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