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Fri, 25 Jul 2008

This was supposed to be a new POHMELFS release day.

I accumulated patches from Varun Chandramohan of IBM Linux center, which add IPv6 support to the POHMELFS server and configuration utility. Kernel client does not need it, since it works with any kind of addresses (by design).
I also wanted to add documentation update from Adam Langley, but apparently I accidentally deleted his patches, so release is being postponed a bit.

Meanwhile I made some little progress at DST development side. Added trivial configuration bits and started to develop cryptography part, mainly configuration (which I will copy from POHMELFS) and thread pool subsystem.
The latter is rather simple patch, which will allow to create a thread pool, to add/remove threads on demand and to queueu a work to the pool. In theory this can be a generic enough patch to be used by other users (I even saw some kind of topic proposal for kernel summit), but so far I'm not going to push it separately from DST. Main goal of this system is crypto processing of the BIOs for the distributed storage.

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