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Re: RFC: drop the T10 OSD code and its users

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On 04/12/2017 07:01 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

Hi Sir Christoph

> The only real user of the T10 OSD protocol, the pNFS object layout
> driver never went to the point of having shipping products, and the
> other two users (osdblk and exofs) were simple example of it's usage.
> 

I understand why osdblk might be a pain, and was broken from day one, and
should by all means go away ASAP.

But exofs should not be bothering anyone, and as far as I know does
not use any special API's except the osd_uld code of course.

> The code has been mostly unmaintained for years and is getting in the
> way of block / SCSI changes, so I think it's finally time to drop it.
> 

Please tell me what are those changes you are talking about? I might be
able to help in conversion. I guess you mean osd_uld and the Upper SCSI API.
Just point me at a tree where osd_uld is broken, and perhaps with a little
guidance from you I can do a satisfactory conversion.

Is true that no new code went in for a long while, but I still from time
to time run a setup and test that the all stack, like iscsi-bidi and so on still
works.

That said, yes only a stand alone exofs was tested for a long time, a full
pnfs setup is missing any supporting server. So Yes I admit that pnfs-obj is
getting very rotten. And is most probably broken, on the pnfs side of things.
[Which I admit makes my little plea kind of mute ;-) ]

Every once in a while I get emails from Students basing all kind of interesting
experiments on top of the exofs and object base storage. So for the sake of academics
and for the sake of a true bidi-stack testing, might we want to evaluate what is the
up coming cost, and what is a minimum set we are willing to keep?

Please advise?

thanks
Boaz

> These patches are against Jens' block for-next tree as that already
> has various modifications of the SCSI code.
> 

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RFC: drop the T10 OSD code and its users Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2017-04-12 18:10 +0200
  [PATCH 1/4] block: remove the osdblk driver Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2017-04-12 18:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 1/4] block: remove the osdblk driver Boaz Harrosh <ooo@electrozaur.com> - 2017-04-19 09:30 +0200
  Re: RFC: drop the T10 OSD code and its users "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com> - 2017-04-14 04:30 +0200
  Re: RFC: drop the T10 OSD code and its users Boaz Harrosh <ooo@electrozaur.com> - 2017-04-18 18:30 +0200
    Re: RFC: drop the T10 OSD code and its users "Chandy, John" <john.chandy@uconn.edu> - 2017-04-18 19:10 +0200
  Re: RFC: drop the T10 OSD code and its users Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> - 2017-04-19 17:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 3/4] nfs: remove the objlayout driver Trond Myklebust <trondmy@primarydata.com> - 2017-04-20 22:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 3/4] nfs: remove the objlayout driver Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2017-04-21 13:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 3/4] nfs: remove the objlayout driver Boaz Harrosh <ooo@electrozaur.com> - 2017-04-21 15:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 3/4] nfs: remove the objlayout driver Boaz Harrosh <ooo@electrozaur.com> - 2017-04-23 11:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 3/4] nfs: remove the objlayout driver Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2017-04-21 13:00 +0200

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