Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [topic] Richer internal block API

[Daniel Phillips <d.phillips@partner.samsung.com>]

On 05/29/2014 11:13 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 10:49:13AM -0700, Daniel Phillips wrote:
>> Hi Neil,
>>
>> This will be my annual proposal to open a general discussion about improving
>> the internal block API, to be capable of doing all the things that the ZFS
>> crowd claim are impossible without rampantly violating filesystem/raid
>> layering. Attacking this in a storage-specific venue would also be good,
>> however I view this issue as being at least as central as a number of topics
>> already raised for general consideration.
> Why didn't you bring this up at the filesystem summit a few months ago?
> That's the best place for it, not at the kernel summit.
Sorry, I did not have time to participate this year. I wonder though, 
why power management is regarded as a summit-worthy topic, but core 
functionality of the block layer is not.
>
>> Full disclosure dept: I have an agenda. I want to add the equivalent of
>> Raidz etc to Tux3 without reimplementing a logical volume manager in the
>> filesystem.
> Like btrfs is doing?  :)
>
> greg k-h
Not like btrfs is doing, the opposite really.

Regards,

Daniel