On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:53:16 -0800 Andy Grover <agrover@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 01/25/2012 09:44 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > There's another project which is creating a very ad-hoc storage > > management abstraction, the nova-volume code in openstack. Right now > > it supports iSCSI with a few vendor-specific extensions for management, > > RBD and sheepdog, but it looks like the numbers of vendors that want > > to be supported is growing. > > > > See https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/master/nova/volume/driver.py > > and other files in that directory for the little bits that exist at the > > moment. > > <two minutes prior> > On 01/25/2012 09:42 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > Wrapping tools from libraries is more of a last resort than a proper > > solution. But if we can't get better APIs that's probably what we > > will have to resort to if vendors don't cooperate. > > Nova is wrapping cmdline tools I think that some drivers are better a bit. For example, looks like SolidFire uses the REST API to talk to their storage: https://review.openstack.org/gitweb?p=openstack%2Fnova.git;a=commit;h=47a357bd2b46a2279a98ed726facd2b12fe0a0f5 , and all the vendors interested so far > are foss/cloudy. True (HP lefthand is supported though). > This definitely shows others see a need for an API, but if we really > want big storage vendor buy-in, then a better (C?/sockets?) API and > working with non-foss code seems key. Agreed. -- 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
