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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] ceph/rbd block driver for qemu-kvm
From: |
MORITA Kazutaka |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] ceph/rbd block driver for qemu-kvm |
Date: |
Wed, 26 May 2010 14:24:15 +0900 |
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At Tue, 25 May 2010 10:12:53 -0700 (PDT),
Sage Weil wrote:
>
> On Tue, 25 May 2010, Avi Kivity wrote:
> > > What's the reason for not having these drivers upstream? Do we gain
> > > anything by hiding them from our users and requiring them to install the
> > > drivers separately from somewhere else?
> > >
> >
> > Six months.
>
> FWIW, we (Ceph) aren't complaining about the 6 month lag time (and I don't
> think the Sheepdog guys are either).
>
I agree. We aren't complaining about it.
> From our perspective, the current BlockDriver abstraction is ideal, as it
> represents the reality of qemu's interaction with storage. Any 'external'
> interface will be inferior to that in one way or another. But either way,
> we are perfectly willing to work with you to all to keep in sync with any
> future BlockDriver API improvements. It is worth our time investment even
> if the API is less stable.
>
I agree.
> The ability to dynamically load a shared object using the existing api
> would make development a bit easier, but I'm not convinced it's better for
> for users. I think having ceph and sheepdog upstream with qemu will serve
> end users best, and we at least are willing to spend the time to help
> maintain that code in qemu.git.
>
I agree.
Regards,
Kazutaka
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] ceph/rbd block driver for qemu-kvm, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] ceph/rbd block driver for qemu-kvm, Avi Kivity, 2010/05/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] ceph/rbd block driver for qemu-kvm, Anthony Liguori, 2010/05/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] ceph/rbd block driver for qemu-kvm, Avi Kivity, 2010/05/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] ceph/rbd block driver for qemu-kvm, Anthony Liguori, 2010/05/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] ceph/rbd block driver for qemu-kvm, Avi Kivity, 2010/05/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] ceph/rbd block driver for qemu-kvm, Anthony Liguori, 2010/05/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] ceph/rbd block driver for qemu-kvm, Avi Kivity, 2010/05/26
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] ceph/rbd block driver for qemu-kvm, Kevin Wolf, 2010/05/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] ceph/rbd block driver for qemu-kvm, Avi Kivity, 2010/05/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] ceph/rbd block driver for qemu-kvm, Sage Weil, 2010/05/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] ceph/rbd block driver for qemu-kvm,
MORITA Kazutaka <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] ceph/rbd block driver for qemu-kvm, Avi Kivity, 2010/05/26
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] ceph/rbd block driver for qemu-kvm, Anthony Liguori, 2010/05/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] ceph/rbd block driver for qemu-kvm, Avi Kivity, 2010/05/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] ceph/rbd block driver for qemu-kvm, MORITA Kazutaka, 2010/05/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] ceph/rbd block driver for qemu-kvm, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2010/05/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] ceph/rbd block driver for qemu-kvm, Avi Kivity, 2010/05/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] ceph/rbd block driver for qemu-kvm, Anthony Liguori, 2010/05/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] ceph/rbd block driver for qemu-kvm, Avi Kivity, 2010/05/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] ceph/rbd block driver for qemu-kvm, Kevin Wolf, 2010/05/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] ceph/rbd block driver for qemu-kvm, Avi Kivity, 2010/05/25