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Subject: Re: RFC: drop the T10 OSD code and its users
From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
References: <20170412160109.10598-1-hch@lst.de>
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 22:27:38 -0400
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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.
>
> 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.

No particular objections from me.

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering