Re: [Xen-devel] about parallex fs

[Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 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. ;)

Ah, that's excellent news!  I had the impression that you'd moved onto other 
things and was worried that it'd lost priority.  It'll be awesome to see a 
parallax release.

I hope the summit proceedings get online soon so I can find out what's going 
on in Xenland ;-)

Cheers,
Mark

> 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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> > pedals! Mark: To answer a question with a question: What use is a
> > skateboard? Dave: Skateboards have wheels.
> > Mark: My wheel has a wheel!
> >
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-- 
Dave: Just a question. What use is a unicyle with no seat?  And no pedals!
Mark: To answer a question with a question: What use is a skateboard?
Dave: Skateboards have wheels.
Mark: My wheel has a wheel!

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