Re: remove exofs, the T10 OSD code and block/scsi bidi support V3

2018-12-23 Thread Boaz Harrosh
On 20/12/18 09:26, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 09:01:53PM -0500, Douglas Gilbert wrote: >>> 1) reduce the size of every kernel with block layer support, and >>> even more for every kernel with scsi support >> >> By proposing the removal of bidi support from the block

Re: remove exofs, the T10 OSD code and block/scsi bidi support V3

2018-12-23 Thread Boaz Harrosh
On 19/12/18 16:43, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 07:11:10PM +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote: >> On 11/11/18 15:32, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >>> The only real user of the T10 OSD protocol, the pNFS object layout >>> driver never went to the point of having shipping products, and we

RE: remove exofs, the T10 OSD code and block/scsi bidi support V3

2018-12-20 Thread Elliott, Robert (Persistent Memory)
> -Original Message- > From: linux-kernel-ow...@vger.kernel.org ow...@vger.kernel.org> On Behalf Of Douglas Gilbert > Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2018 9:02 PM > Subject: Re: remove exofs, the T10 OSD code and block/scsi bidi support V3 > ... > While on the subje

Re: remove exofs, the T10 OSD code and block/scsi bidi support V3

2018-12-19 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 09:01:53PM -0500, Douglas Gilbert wrote: >> 1) reduce the size of every kernel with block layer support, and >> even more for every kernel with scsi support > > By proposing the removal of bidi support from the block layer, it isn't > just the SCSI subsystem that

Re: remove exofs, the T10 OSD code and block/scsi bidi support V3

2018-12-19 Thread Douglas Gilbert
On 2018-12-19 9:43 a.m., Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 07:11:10PM +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote: On 11/11/18 15:32, Christoph Hellwig wrote: The only real user of the T10 OSD protocol, the pNFS object layout driver never went to the point of having shipping products, and we

Re: remove exofs, the T10 OSD code and block/scsi bidi support V3

2018-12-19 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 07:11:10PM +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > On 11/11/18 15:32, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > The only real user of the T10 OSD protocol, the pNFS object layout > > driver never went to the point of having shipping products, and we > > removed it 1.5 years ago. Exofs is just a

Re: remove exofs, the T10 OSD code and block/scsi bidi support V3

2018-11-26 Thread Boaz Harrosh
On 11/11/18 15:32, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > The only real user of the T10 OSD protocol, the pNFS object layout > driver never went to the point of having shipping products, and we > removed it 1.5 years ago. Exofs is just a simple example without > real life users. > You have failed to say

Re: remove exofs, the T10 OSD code and block/scsi bidi support V3

2018-11-26 Thread Boaz Harrosh
On 11/11/18 15:32, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > The only real user of the T10 OSD protocol, the pNFS object layout > driver never went to the point of having shipping products, and we > removed it 1.5 years ago. Exofs is just a simple example without > real life users. > You have failed to say