> > Now in my experience that is a *dumb* question because the answer is > > obvious... > > The choice is between "new magic OSD fs" and "new fs that used to be > ext4, before we hacked it up". > > "existing one you trust" is not an option... No it isn't. The choice is existing technology followed by a "thank you goodbye Mr OSD salesman". I'm not saying we shouldn't work on an OSD file system and I'm glad IBM folks are but that it can be done slowly. Also for most fs folks an OSD emulator testing might not be a bad idea - say one stacked on ext3 8) -- 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