> On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 10:40:40 -0700 Sage Weil wrote:
>
> > From: Yehuda Sadeh <yehuda@hq.newdream.net>
> >
> > The rados block device (rbd), based on osdblk, creates a block device
> > that is backed by objects stored in the Ceph distributed object storage
> > cluster. Each device consists of a single metadata object and data
> > striped over many data objects.
> >
> > The rbd driver supports read-only snapshots.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Yehuda Sadeh <yehuda@hq.newdream.net>
> > Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
> > ---
> > MAINTAINERS | 9 +
> > drivers/block/Kconfig | 13 +
> > drivers/block/Makefile | 1 +
> > drivers/block/rbd.c | 1844 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > drivers/block/rbd_types.h | 73 ++
> > 5 files changed, 1940 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> > create mode 100644 drivers/block/rbd.c
> > create mode 100644 drivers/block/rbd_types.h
> >
> > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > index 5102922..cb34b1b 100644
> > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > @@ -4694,6 +4694,15 @@ F: fs/qnx4/
> > F: include/linux/qnx4_fs.h
> > F: include/linux/qnxtypes.h
> >
> > +RADOS BLOCK DEVICE (RBD)
> > +F: include/linux/qnxtypes.h
> > +M: Yehuda Sadeh <yehuda@hq.newdream.net>
> > +M: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
> > +M:
ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org
> > +S: Supported
> > +F: drivers/block/rbd.c
> > +F: drivers/block/rbd_types.h
> > +
> > RADEON FRAMEBUFFER DISPLAY DRIVER
> > M: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
> > L:
linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org
> > diff --git a/drivers/block/Kconfig b/drivers/block/Kconfig
> > index de27768..708104b 100644
> > --- a/drivers/block/Kconfig
> > +++ b/drivers/block/Kconfig
> > @@ -488,4 +488,17 @@ config BLK_DEV_HD
> >
> > If unsure, say N.
> >
> > +config BLK_DEV_RBD
> > + tristate "Rados block device (RBD)"
> > + select CEPH_LIB
> > + default n
> > + help
> > + Say Y here if you want include the Rados block device, which stripes
> > + a block device over objects stored in the Ceph distributed object
> > + store.
> > +
> > + More information at
http://ceph.newdream.net/.
> > +
> > + If unsure, say N.
> > +
> > endif # BLK_DEV
>
> In linux-next of 20100813, I get:
>
> net/built-in.o: In function `read_partial_message_section':
> messenger.c:(.text+0x6598b): undefined reference to `crc32c'
> net/built-in.o: In function `read_partial_message_bio':
> messenger.c:(.text+0x65a57): undefined reference to `crc32c'
> net/built-in.o: In function `write_partial_msg_pages':
> messenger.c:(.text+0x65e22): undefined reference to `crc32c'
> net/built-in.o: In function `prepare_write_message':
> messenger.c:(.text+0x66219): undefined reference to `crc32c'
> messenger.c:(.text+0x66240): undefined reference to `crc32c'
> net/built-in.o:messenger.c:(.text+0x66264): more undefined references to `crc32c' follow
>
> when CONFIG_INET is not enabled. It looks like BLK_DEV_RBD needs to depend on
> INET and possibly on BLOCK (I sent a patch for depends on BLOCK on 2010-aug-04
> due to other build errors).
