On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:47:00 +1000 Mark Harvey <markh794 at gmail.com> wrote: > An alternative backing store primarily for SSC device which uses a meta-data header for each block of data. > > Embedded with the metadata are forward & back pointers to next & previous headers forming a double-linked list of headers. I think that everyone agrees on having the separate metadata. When we discussed this last time, I thought that we use extended attributes to store metadata. Looks like that your code uses the first bytes of a file to store the metadata. Using extended attributes doesn't work? > Patch 1/2 patch includes bs_tape and a couple of helper utilities for: > - creating 'blank' media > - Dumping media headers > Patch 2/2 patches the tgt-core-test script which I use to setup the VTL. > > Note: The bs_tape is almost at the same level of functionality as the bs_ssc without Richard Sharps recent patches. Almost? What are the differences? Well, I don't think that we need two ssc implementations. We need to integrate two. Except for the metadata handling, what are the differences between them? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stgt" in the body of a message to majordomo at vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html |