On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 05:20:42PM +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > > User-mode Interface is another matter. There are some ideas and some already > implemented. > [Hosted on open-osd.org > see: http://git.open-osd.org/gitweb.cgi?p=osc-osd/.git;a=summary > look inside the osd-initiator directory] > And I have a toy interface that adds no new entries into the Kernel in > the form of an OSDVFS module, that will let you access the raw OSD device > through the VFS name-space. > > The lack of any user-mode API is just the lack of any current need/priority, > or that I'm the only one working on OSD. But nothing that could not be solved > in two weeks of pragmatic work. Surly it's not a paradigm problem. For mkfs/repair direct use by databases, etc you want a userspace library, too. The easiest way to get started would to simply take the kernel libosd and make it work ontop of SG_IO. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
