Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751503AbZLSLBi (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Dec 2009 06:01:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751268AbZLSLBi (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Dec 2009 06:01:38 -0500 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:37618 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750946AbZLSLBg (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Dec 2009 06:01:36 -0500 To: Jim Garlick Cc: Linus Torvalds , Sage Weil , Gregory Haskins , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, greg@kroah.com Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Ceph distributed file system client for 2.6.33 From: Andi Kleen References: <20091218231505.GA21371@llnl.gov> Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 12:01:33 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20091218231505.GA21371@llnl.gov> (Jim Garlick's message of "Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:15:05 -0800") Message-ID: <87ws0jtegi.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1118 Lines: 27 Jim Garlick writes: > > Ceph is new and experimental so you're not going to see production shops One issue with ceph is that I'm not sure it has any users at all. The mailing list seems to be pretty much dead? On a philosophical area I agree that network file systems are definitely an area that could need some more improvements. > like ours jumping up and down saying we use it and are tired of merging it, > like we would say if if Lustre were (again) on the table. OT, but I took a look at some Lustre srpm a few months ago and it didn't seem to still require all the horrible VFS patches that the older versions were plagued with (or perhaps I missed them). Because it definitely seems to have a large real world user base perhaps it would be something for staging at least these days? -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only. -- 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/