From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vivek Goyal Subject: Re: [LSF/MM TOPIC] linux servers as a storage server - what's missing? Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 10:58:49 -0500 Message-ID: <20111222155849.GD1388@redhat.com> References: <4EF2026F.2090506@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: rwheeler@redhat.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Shyam_Iyer@Dell.com Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:22850 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753114Ab1LVP6v (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Dec 2011 10:58:51 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 01:44:16PM +0530, Shyam_Iyer@Dell.com wrote: [..] > Simple asks - > 1) Provide a consistent storage and fs management library that discourages folks to write their own usespace storage library. Include things like fs formatting(fs profiles), transport configuration(eg: iscsiadm as a library), thin provisioning watermarks, cluster management, apis for cgroups etc. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ For cgroups, we have libcgroup library. Not many people like to use it though as cgroup is exported as a filesystem and they prefer to use normal libc api to traverse and configure cgroups (Instead of going through another library). Some examples include libvrit, systemd. Thanks Vivek