[stgt] [PATCH] Add support for modular backends

[ronnie sahlberg]

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On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Dan Mick <dan.mick at inktank.com> wrote:
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> On 09/20/2013 05:38 PM, Andy Grover wrote:
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>> On 09/20/2013 11:36 AM, Dan Mick wrote:
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>>>> The only question I have isn't about the modularization, but about the
>>>> fancy new backstore that prompted it, and how to support it. Not that I
>>>> expect much work will be needed, but Dan, are you or some other Ceph dev
>>>> around if an issue with bs_rbd comes up? :)
>>>
>>>
>>> Sure.  Maybe I should make sure there's a generic alias included
>>> somewhere with contact info.
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>>
>> That's great to hear! :) I'd say you could add your copyright and
>> contact info to the file's header comment, if you wanted?
>
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> There was little enough in the code that changed from bs_rdwr.c that
> I didn't bother with copyright, really, but at least http://ceph.com is in
> the README.rbd.  That might be enough to be a start.
>
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>>> I hope it's clear that we support this work, by the way; we plan on
>>> making sure additional packages with bs_rbd.so are available to whoever
>>> needs them, hopefully by petitioning the distros, but if not, building
>>> them ourselves.
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>>
>> Wow. Nice.
>>
>> BTW you meant additional *tgt* packages with bs_rbd.so, right? Because
>> someone could uncharitably read what you said as saying you're going to
>> distribute just bs_rbd.so separate from tgt, and that wouldn't be a good
>> idea. I just wanted to restate that this change is intended to enable a
>> separate binary subpackaging of bs_rbd.so only. The exports from tgtd
>> are not a "stable API", and the only versions of tgt and bs_rbd.so
>> guaranteed to work together are those built together.
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>
> Whatever works, sure.
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