Re: RFC: drop the T10 OSD code and its users

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Wed Apr 19 2017 - 11:11:54 EST


On Wed, Apr 12 2017, 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 the
> other two users (osdblk and exofs) were simple example of it's usage.
>
> The code has been mostly unmaintained for years and is getting in the
> way of block / SCSI changes, so I think it's finally time to drop it.
>
> These patches are against Jens' block for-next tree as that already

I've added 1/4 for now, as that one should obviously go. If we have
consensus to kill the rest, I'm all for it.

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Jens Axboe