The Ceph kernel client may not make it into .33 after all... in the absense of other issues, Linus would like to see some user demand before merging a new subsystem. If you'd like to see it in mainline sooner, now's the time to speak up.
Either way, this doesn't change too much for us. We're still focusing in improving stability and fixing osd performance problems, and not much else. The disk format and wire protocol are very nearly stabilized. An earlier merge would make it easier for people to test the system, but pulling the client from the ceph tree or building the standalone module will make it easier for us to manage bug fixes. sage On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Sage Weil wrote: > > > > I would still like to see ceph merged for 2.6.33. It's certainly not > > production ready, but it would be greatly beneficial to be in mainline for > > the same reasons other file systems like btrfs and exofs were merged > > early. > > So what happened to ceph is the same thing that happened to the alacrityvm > pull request (Greg Haskins added to cc): I pretty much continually had a > _lot_ of pull requests, and all the time the priority for the ceph and > alactrityvm pull requests were just low enough on my priority list that I > never felt I had the reason to look into the background enough to make an > even half-assed decision of whether to pull or not. > > And no, "just pull" is not my default answer - if I don't have a reason, > the default action is "don't pull". > > I used to say that "my job is to say 'no'", although I've been so good at > farming out submaintainers that most of the time my real job is to pull > from submaintainers who hopefully know how to say 'no'. But when it comes > to whole new driver features, I'm still "no by default - tell me _why_ I > should pull". > > So what is a new subsystem person to do? > > The best thing to do is to try to have users that are vocal about the > feature, and talk about how great it is. Some advocates for it, in other > words. Just a few other people saying "hey, I use this, it's great", is > actually a big deal to me. For alacrityvm and cephfs, I didn't have that, > or they just weren't loud enough for me to hear. > > So since you mentioned btrfs as an "early merge", I'll mention it too, as > a great example of how something got merged early because it had easily > gotten past my "people are asking for it" filter, to the point where _I_ > was interested in trying it out personally, and asking Chris&co to tell me > when it was ready. > > Ok, so that was somewhat unusual - I'm not suggesting you'd need to try to > drum up quite _that_ much hype - but it kind of illustrates the opposite > extreme of your issue. Get some PR going, get people talking about it, get > people testing it out. Get people outside of your area saying "hey, I use > it, and I hate having to merge it every release". > > Then, when I see a pull request during the merge window, the pull suddenly > has a much higher priority, and I go "Ok, I know people are using this". > > So no astro-turfing, but real grass-roots support really does help (or > top-down feedback for that matter - if a _distribution_ says "we're going > to merge this in our distro regardless", that also counts as a big hint > for me that people actually expect to use it and would like to not go > through the pain of merging). > > Linus > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in > the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Ceph-devel mailing list Ceph-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ceph-devel
