<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Related links:<div><div><a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/954490">https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/954490</a></div><div><a href="https://review.openstack.org/#change,5377">https://review.openstack.org/#change,5377</a></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Mar 14, 2012, at 6:54 PM, Vishvananda Ishaya wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Apologies if you receive this email twice, I sent the first one from the wrong address.<br><br>Hello Everyone,<br><br>Last week during the release meeting it was mentioned that the VSA code is not working properly and we should either fix it or remove it. I propose to remove it for the following reasons:<br><br>* Lack of documentation -- unclear how to create a vsa image or how the image should function<br>* Lack of support from vendors -- originally, the hope was other vendors would use the vsa code to create their own virtual storage arrays<br>* Lack of functional testing -- this is the main reason the code has bitrotted<br>* Lack of updates from original coders -- Zadara has mentioned a few times that they were going to update the code but it has not happened<br>* Eases Transition to separate volume project -- This lowers the surface area of the volume code and makes it easier to cleanly separate the volume service to compute<br><br>As far as I can tell Zadara is maintaining a fork of the code for their platform, so keeping the code in the public tree doesn't seem necessary. I would be happy to see this code come back in Folsom if we get a stronger commitment to keep it up-to-date, documented, and maintained, and there is a reasonable location for it if the volume and compute code is separate.<br><br>If anyone disagrees, please respond ASAP.<br><br>Vish<br>_______________________________________________<br>Mailing list: <a href="https://launchpad.net/~openstack">https://launchpad.net/~openstack</a><br>Post to : <a href="mailto:openstack@lists.launchpad.net">openstack@lists.launchpad.net</a><br>Unsubscribe : <a href="https://launchpad.net/~openstack">https://launchpad.net/~openstack</a><br>More help : <a href="https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp">https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>