On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 2:04 AM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> At this point format 2 is understood by the kernel, and the
>> infrastructure for opening parent images and the I/O path
>> for clones is in progress. We estimate about 4-8 weeks for this,
>> but you should check back then.
>> Kernel 3.6 was already released, so this would probably go into 3.8 or
>> 3.9.
>
> Hi Josh:
>
> Please let me clarify some point.
> If we want to map an RBD image to a kernel object, it may not ready until 
> kernel 3.8 or 3.9.
Right.

> But if we want to running qemu with RBD, it is ready in kernel 3.6, since 
> QEMU can access it via librbd directly.
It doesn't even need to be kernel 3.6 — it just needs to be a
sufficiently new version of librbd. Hurray userspace! :)
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