Cyril Plisko wrote: > On Dec 21, 2007 7:51 PM, John Forte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Sorry for the late response. I think I'm unclear as to why we need a >> project created for investigative purposes. I would think that if we're >> trying to determine feasibility, that can be done outside the scope of a >> formal project. The word investigate sort of implies that the project >> might not proceed dependent upon the outcome of some investigation and >> maybe that's truly the intent of the proposal. Is it possible to clarify >> what needs to be investigated and can/should anything be done up front >> prior to project instantiation to better ensure success? For me, it's >> not entirely clear what I'm voting on. >> > > John, > > You right, I should have clarify that a little bit more. The purpose of the > investigation is to determine whether the compatibility with Linux > device-mapper can be achieved. The device mapper by itself is quite > useful facility in my opinion. The immediate value, however, is in providing > enough functionality to be able to interoperate with Linux. > > What can be done upfront ? That's a good question. I am planning to > prototype the dm facility and use this prototype to see whether I can > get it to access Linux-created devices. Another thing is to check whether > original Linux libdevmapper can be used as is. The library is licensed > under LGPL, so the licensing shouldn't be as issue. There portability of > the code, on the other hand is questionable. So another thing to determine > would be whether to create a native library implementing same API, or > to invest into porting it (lib) over to Solaris. > > Does that clear thing up for you ? > >
I'm okay with a project for a prototype which may never make its way into the code base. By the way, having a project accepted by a CG is by no means a guarantee that it will be accepted into OpenSolaris. That is a decision for an ARC. Anyway, +1. Also, since no one else has piped up about a timeout and this has been languishing for some time, lets give it a timeout of Dec 27th. I would have done earlier, except for the whole Dec 25th thing... _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
