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The Lustre filesystem has been in the kernel tree for over 5 years now.
While it has been an endless source of enjoyment for new kernel
developers learning how to do basic codingstyle cleanups, as well as an
semi-entertaining source of bewilderment from the vfs developers any
time they have looked into the codebase to try to figure out how to port
their latest api changes to this filesystem, it has not really moved
forward into the "this is in shape to get out of staging" despite many
half-completed attempts.
And getting code out of staging is the main goal of that portion of the
kernel tree. Code should not stagnate and it feels like having this
code in staging is only causing the development cycle of the filesystem
to take longer than it should. There is a whole separate out-of-tree
copy of this codebase where the developers work on it, and then random
changes are thrown over the wall at staging at some later point in time.
This dual-tree development model has never worked, and the state of this
codebase is proof of that.
So, let's just delete the whole mess. Now the lustre developers can go
off and work in their out-of-tree codebase and not have to worry about
providing valid changelog entries and breaking their patches up into
logical pieces. They can take the time they have spend doing those
types of housekeeping chores and get the codebase into a much better
shape, and it can be submitted for inclusion into the real part of the
kernel tree when ready.
Cc: Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@intel.com>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@intel.com>
Cc: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Lustre is the most deployed distributed file system
in the HPC (High Performance Computing) world. The patch
adds its client side support.
The code is not very clean and needs to live in drivers/staging
for some time for continuing cleanup work. See
drivers/staging/lustre/TODO for details.
The code is based on Lustre master commit faefbfc04
commit faefbfc0460bc00f2ee4c1c1c86aa1e39b9eea49
Author: Alex Zhuravlev <alexey.zhuravlev@intel.com>
Date: Tue Apr 30 23:05:21 2013 +0400
LU-3244 utils: tunefs.lustre should preserve virgin label
Plus a few under-review patches on Whamcloud gerrit:
3.8 kernel support:
http://review.whamcloud.com/#change,5973
http://review.whamcloud.com/#change,5974
http://review.whamcloud.com/#change,5768
http://review.whamcloud.com/#change,5781
http://review.whamcloud.com/#change,5763
http://review.whamcloud.com/#change,5613
http://review.whamcloud.com/#change,5655
3.9 kernel support:
http://review.whamcloud.com/#change,5898
http://review.whamcloud.com/#change,5899
Kconfig/Kbuild:
http://review.whamcloud.com/#change,4646
http://review.whamcloud.com/#change,4644
libcfs cleanup:
http://review.whamcloud.com/#change,2831
http://review.whamcloud.com/#change,4775
http://review.whamcloud.com/#change,4776
http://review.whamcloud.com/#change,4777
http://review.whamcloud.com/#change,4778
http://review.whamcloud.com/#change,4779
http://review.whamcloud.com/#change,4780
All starting/trailing whitespaces are removed, to match kernel
coding style. Also ran scripts/cleanfile on all lustre source files.
[maked the Kconfig depend on BROKEN as the recent procfs changes causes
this to fail - gregkh]
Signed-off-by: Peng Tao <tao.peng@emc.com>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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