[Ksummit-2008-discuss] Kernel Summit Request for Discussion: The Future of Target mode and Cloud storage on Linux

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 10:32:22AM +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:35:01 -0600
> Matthew Wilcox <matthew at wil.cx> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 05:15:22PM -0700, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
> > > James, there are lots of people interested in a proper kernel level
> > > target engine that can be used across multiple fabrics.  The problem is
> > 
> > But are any of them going to be at kernel summit?  This just doesn't
> > feel like something that is of kernel-wide interest.  I appreciate it's
> > something you feel strongly about, but this really feels like something
> > that's very scsi-specific.
> > 
> > What can be addressed at the KS that couldn't be addressed at the
> > storage summit?
> 
> At the storage summit last year, I thought that the majority of
> developers were not familiar with (or interested in) target
> implementations.

I agree.  I think there will be even fewer people at KS interested in
target implementations than there were at SS.

-- 
Matthew Wilcox				Intel Open Source Technology Centre
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours.  We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."