On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 02:21:08PM -0700, Derek Cicero wrote: > Aaron Dailey wrote: > > >I'd like to propose a community dedicated to the storage software in > >Open Solaris. This would include drivers below the filesystems/volume > >managers, and related utilities. > > > >For example, this would be: > >-target drivers such as sd, st, ses > >-SCSA framework > >-FibreChannel stack, various parallel SCSI HBA drivers, ATA/IDE > >drivers, the iSCSI initiator > >-The storage specific portions of USB and Firewire > >-Related utilities, such as fcinfo, format, luxadm, cfgadm plugin, etc > > > >I see a couple reasons to do this: > >-Generally the storage stack is a distinct part of OpenSolaris, and > >it's interesting, at least to some of us :-) > >-More specifically, the division of Sun I work in will soon be > >releasing source for FibreChannel and the iSCSI initiator, as well as > >other bits, and this community would be a good place for any > >discussion to occur. Moreover, there's a lot of code already released > >that deals with storage, which this community would include. > > It looks like there are no objections to the creation of this community > at this point. Do we have any +1 votes from the CAB? > > Derek >
I think its a great idea, becouse vm, is one of the heavy used parts. And source for FC will be something impossible :) -- Antony Pavlenko _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
