On 01/02/19 09:55, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > The only real user of the T10 OSD protocol, the pNFS object layout > driver never went to the point of having shipping products, and we > removed it 1.5 years ago. Exofs is just a simple example without > real life users. > > The code has been mostly unmaintained for years and is getting in the > way of block / SCSI changes, For the 4th time: Which ? > and does not even work properly currently, > so I think it's finally time to drop it. > > Quote from Boaz: > Hello? anyone home? Please resend without the below Quote!!! Because yes I said that but I have also said the opposite. And I have clearly stated in reaction to the last 3 resends. That I now oppose to the below statement. And that you should please remove it. Do your own text please. Don't drag me in the mud > "As I said then. It is used in Universities for studies and experiments. > Every once in a while. I get an email with questions and reports. > > But yes feel free to remove the all thing!! > > I guess I can put it up on github. In a public tree. > > Just that I will need to forward port it myself, til now you guys > been doing this for me ;-)" > > Now the last time this caused a bit of a stir, but still no actual users, > not even for SG_IO passthrough commands. So here we go again, this time > including removing everything in the scsi and block layer supporting it, > and thus shrinking struct request. > NAK-by: Boaz harrosh <ooo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> For what ever that means ... Cheers Boaz
