Am 04.03.2015 um 15:18 schrieb Csaba Henk: > Hi Danny, > > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Danny Al-Gaaf" <danny.al-g...@bisect.de> >> To: "Deepak Shetty" <dpkshe...@gmail.com> >> Cc: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" >> <openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org>, >> ceph-de...@vger.kernel.org >> Sent: Wednesday, March 4, 2015 3:05:46 PM >> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Manila] Ceph native driver for manila >> > ... >> Another level of indirection. I really like the approach of filesystem >> passthrough ... the only critical question is if virtfs/p9 is still >> supported in some way (and the question if not: why?). > > That "only" seems to be a biggie, isn't it?
Yes, it is. > We -- Red Hat -- considered a similar, virtfs based driver for GlusterFS > but we dropped that plan exactly for virtfs being abandonware. > > As far as I know it was meant to be a research project, and providing > a fairly well working POC it was concluded -- but Deepak knows more of > the story. Would like to understand why it was abandoned. I see the need of filesystem passthrough in the area of virtualization. Is there another solution available? Danny __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev