At Fri, 27 Sep 2013 01:37:30 +0900 (JST), FUJITA Tomonori wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 11:59:18 +0900 > Hitoshi Mitake <mitake.hitoshi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > This patch implements a new backing store support for sheepdog, distributed > > storage system initially designed for QEMU > > (https://github.com/sheepdog/sheepdog). With this patch, sheepdog can support > > iSCSI protocol, so hypervisors other than QEMU/KVM and native OSes can use > > sheepdog as their block devices. The new --bstype is "sheepdog". > > (This patch is a refinement of tgt's sheepdog branch.) > > > > This patch still has some todos and would have bugs, but I'd like to post it for > > keeping this patch small and getting feedback in early stage. > > Some might say this had better to be a dynamic loadable > library. Either is fine by me because it doesn't depend on any > original C header files. I'm ccing people who would be interested in modular backing stores, Ronnie Sahlberg and Andy Grover. I think the sheepdog backing store support doesn't have to be a module because it doesn't create any new dependencies. Any comments? > > > Major todos: > > - exploiting multithread support of tgt > > It has been a long time since I wrote any sheepdog code so I can't > recall the details but this backing store can use only a single > connection even if this uses tgt multithread feature? Yes, multithreading seems to cause some problems. I'll fix it in the near future. Thanks, Hitoshi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stgt" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
