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

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 08:56:49PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 05:36:17PM -0700, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
>  
>  > I could not think of a better group to have this discussion in front of,
>  > as we storage folks left to our own devices could not settle on a
>  > solution.  So having some inpartial kernel devels around who can also
>  > have a look at the proposals is invaluable IMHO.  :-)
> 
> Part of the problem is the majority of the room won't have a slightest idea
> what most of this is even about.  I lost count how many acronyms you've
> dropped in the last 2-3 mails that I failed to parse, and I'm fairly
> confident the same will be true for most summit attendees, who will just
> tune out and spend the session reading email.

And as someone who knows what this is about I would do the same. There's
has been more than enough discussions on this topic, but no actually
useful move on the code front towards a target with kernel and userspace
backends.  I don't think any amount of talk at KS has the slightest
chance to fix this.