Re: remove exofs and the T10 OSD code V2

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Mon Oct 29 2018 - 16:42:19 EST


On 10/27/18 2:20 AM, 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 we
> removed it 1.5 years ago. Exofs is just a simple example without
> real life users.
>
> 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.
>
> Quote from Boaz:
>
> "As I said then. It is used in Universities for studies and experiments.
> Every once in a while. I get an email with questions and reports.
>
> But yes feel free to remove the all thing!!
>
> I guess I can put it up on github. In a public tree.
>
> Just that I will need to forward port it myself, til now you guys
> been doing this for me ;-)"

LGTM, for both:

Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>

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