Community,
We have a number of FSALs in Ganesha that have no effective support, I'd
like to understand who might still be relying on them and if there is anyone
who might step up to support them, or whether we can consider removing some
on an expedited timeline (normally we declare a FSAL is deprecated in one
release, and then remove it in the next). Note that with the magic of git,
deleted FSALs could easily be resurrected (though they might not have been
updated to match API changes). The risk of not removing unsupported code is
first that folks will use code with little or no support and open github
issues that cannot effectively be addressed, and that unsupported code may
not be properly updated as API changes are made.
The following FSALs are suspect:
src/FSAL/FSAL_VFS/xfs - this is marginally supported, but could be replaced
with plain FSAL_VFS
src/FSAL/FSAL_VFS - there is also a Lustre FSAL that is built from this
src/FSAL/FSAL_GLUSTER
src/FSAL/FSAL_LIZARDFS
src/FSAL/FSAL_PROXY_V3
src/FSAL/FSAL_PROXY_V4
src/FSAL/FSAL_KVSFS
src/FSAL/FSAL_SAUNAFS
Thank for your thoughts
Frank Filz
