Re: remove exofs, the T10 OSD code and block/scsi bidi support V4

From: Martin K. Petersen
Date: Mon Feb 04 2019 - 22:48:21 EST



Christoph,

> The only real user of the T10 OSD protocol, the pNFS object layout
> driver never went to the point of having shipping products, and we
> removed it 1.5 years ago. Exofs is just a simple example without real
> life users.
>
> The code has been mostly unmaintained for years and is getting in the
> way of block / SCSI changes, and does not even work properly currently,
> so I think it's finally time to drop it.

Applied to 5.1/scsi-queue. Thanks!

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Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering