Re: [Xen-devel] about parallex fs

["Andrew Warfield" <andy@xxxxxxxxx>]

Actually, Parallax is currently under active development.  Dutch Meyer
recently presented a progress report on it at the Xen summit.  I
believe Dutch is planning a release of the updated Parallax source
RSN, but I'll leave it to him (copied) to commit to a date. ;)

a.

On Dec 1, 2007 9:18 PM, Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I have read the paper about parallex FS in xen , and I am interested in
> > it ,but I notice that parallex FS which is in the tree for earlier
> > version ,has been dropped out in the later version, what is the reason
> > for dropping it out, in my opinion,it is an interesting and promising
> > technech,is it ? or are there some disadvantages in it ,or are there
> > some even more interesting substituent tech for it?
> > I am confused about it ,could someone give me some exeplaination
>
> I don't think the parallax in the mainline tree was ever developed very
> heavily; it seems likely that the version written up in the paper was based
> on a modified source tree.
>
> But the code went unmaintained for some time and was presumably removed from
> the source tree due to it getting old and not working properly...  I agree it
> seemed like a really interesting technology and it's a shame not to see more
> done with it.  I get the impression that most enterprises are using NAS/SAN
> solutions already, so perhaps there wasn't sufficient demand for Parallax as
> a competing solution...
>
> Cheers,
> Mark
>
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