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Scope the changes to enable a remote volume driver #50

Closed clintkitson closed 8 years ago

vaibhavkhanduja commented 9 years ago

Nice initiative ... please check libstorage - https://github.com/openSUSE/libstorage from SuSE, seems to be very comprehensive though I have not tried.

clintkitson commented 9 years ago

@vaibhavkhanduja Although similar in naming, I don't believe they are achieving the same purpose https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Libstorage. The LibStorage we are referring to does deal with creating and mounting filesystems. However, there are other missing pieces to the puzzle of attaching remote disks, ie. introspection of who am I, issuing API calls to map, and then discover local disks. These things as an example, must be abstracted among storage platforms.

clintkitson commented 9 years ago

Work to take place here after RR 0.2 delivery

vaibhavkhanduja commented 9 years ago

I may not sound very pro EMC here, but I always thought EMC portfolio has a missing SDS piece, which can serve all kinds of storage - file, block, object and also file-system. IBM has it GPFS, Redhat got Ceph (quite advance distributed file-system with implementing "Crush"). IBM even has RDMA, iSER support :(

Anyways, good luck ... would like to see your specs when available ..