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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] ceph/rbd block driver for qemu-kvm
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Kevin Wolf |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] ceph/rbd block driver for qemu-kvm |
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Tue, 25 May 2010 13:02:30 +0200 |
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Am 23.05.2010 14:01, schrieb Avi Kivity:
> On 05/21/2010 12:29 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>
>> I'd be more interested in enabling people to build these types of
>> storage systems without touching qemu.
>>
>> Both sheepdog and ceph ultimately transmit I/O over a socket to a
>> central daemon, right?
>
> That incurs an extra copy.
>
>> So could we not standardize a protocol for this that both sheepdog and
>> ceph could implement?
>
> The protocol already exists, nbd. It doesn't support snapshotting etc.
> but we could extend it.
>
> But IMO what's needed is a plugin API for the block layer.
What would it buy us, apart from more downstreams and having to maintain
a stable API and ABI? Hiding block drivers somewhere else doesn't make
them stop existing, they just might not be properly integrated, but
rather hacked in to fit that limited stable API.
Kevin
- 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, 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 <=
- 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, Christoph Hellwig, 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, 2010/05/25
- 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