Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756654AbZADPkV (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Jan 2009 10:40:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751875AbZADPkF (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Jan 2009 10:40:05 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:58207 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751680AbZADPkD (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Jan 2009 10:40:03 -0500 Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 10:38:41 -0500 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Boaz Harrosh Cc: James Bottomley , Matthew Wilcox , Benny Halevy , Jeff Garzik , Andrew Morton , Al Viro , Avishay Traeger , open-osd development , linux-scsi , linux-kernel , linux-fsdevel Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/9] exofs: mkexofs Message-ID: <20090104153841.GA16569@infradead.org> References: <4947BFAA.4030208@panasas.com> <4947CA5C.50104@panasas.com> <20081229121423.efde9d06.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <495B8D90.1090004@panasas.com> <1230739053.3408.74.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4960D3CA.2000202@panasas.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4960D3CA.2000202@panasas.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1138 Lines: 24 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-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/