From: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
To: "Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" <lkml@metux.net>
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Subject: Re: [Patch v2 2/3] Drivers: hv: add Azure Blob driver
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2021 17:39:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210628173901.mwo4ydfdmf3zd2zt@liuwe-devbox-debian-v2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ff05bb0d-bcad-8445-d410-7756e7502352@metux.net>
On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 07:12:40PM +0200, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote:
> On 26.06.21 08:30, longli@linuxonhyperv.com wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > From: Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>
> >
> > Azure Blob storage provides scalable and durable data storage for Azure.
> > (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/blobs/)
>
> It's a bit hard to quickly find out the exact semantics of that (w/o fully
> reading the library code ...). :(
>
> > This driver adds support for accelerated access to Azure Blob storage. As an
> > alternative to REST APIs, it provides a fast data path that uses host native
> > network stack and secure direct data link for storage server access.
>
> I don't think that yet another misc device with some very specific API
> is a good thing. We should have a more generic userland interface.
>
> Maybe a file system ?
This can already be done if I'm not mistaken:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/storage-how-to-mount-container-linux
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/network-file-system-protocol-support-how-to
>
> OTOH, I've been considering adding other kind of blob stores (eg. venti
> and similar things) and inventing an own subsys for that, so we'd have
> some more universal interface. Unfortunately always been busy with other
> things.
>
> Maybe we should go that route instead of introducing yet another device
> specific uapi.
This work of course does not preclude anyone from going that route.
Wei.
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-28 17:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-26 6:30 [Patch v2 0/3] Introduce a driver to support host accelerated access to Microsoft Azure Blob longli
2021-06-26 6:30 ` [Patch v2 1/3] Drivers: hv: vmbus: add support to ignore certain PCIE devices longli
2021-06-28 20:47 ` Michael Kelley
2021-06-26 6:30 ` [Patch v2 2/3] Drivers: hv: add Azure Blob driver longli
2021-06-26 7:18 ` kernel test robot
2021-06-28 17:12 ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2021-06-28 17:39 ` Wei Liu [this message]
2021-06-28 20:50 ` Michael Kelley
2021-07-01 6:51 ` Long Li
2021-07-01 16:02 ` Michael Kelley
2021-07-02 23:59 ` Long Li
2021-07-03 14:37 ` Michael Kelley
2021-07-09 2:09 ` Michael Kelley
2021-07-09 19:44 ` Long Li
2021-07-12 3:58 ` Michael Kelley
2021-06-29 6:24 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-06-29 10:41 ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2021-06-29 12:18 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-06-30 15:29 ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2021-07-01 6:58 ` Long Li
2021-07-01 9:36 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-07-01 17:24 ` Long Li
2021-06-29 6:25 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-07-01 6:59 ` Long Li
2021-06-29 8:43 ` Jiri Slaby
2021-07-01 7:09 ` Long Li
2021-07-01 15:16 ` Joe Perches
2021-07-01 22:41 ` Long Li
2021-06-26 6:30 ` [Patch v2 3/3] Drivers: hv: Add to maintainer for " longli
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