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On 07:27 Tue 18 Nov     , Duncan Thomas wrote:
> Is the new driver drop-in compatible with the old one? IF not, can existing
> systems be upgraded to the new driver via some manual steps, or is it
> basically a completely new driver with similar functionality?
> 
> On 17 November 2014 07:08, Drew Fisher <drew.fisher at oracle.com> wrote:
> > We (here at Oracle) have a replacement for this driver which includes
> > local ZFS, iSCSI and FC drivers all with ZFS as the underlying driver.
> > We're in the process of getting CI set up so we can contribute the
> > driver upstream along with our ZFSSA driver (which is already in the
> tree).
> >
> > If anybody has more questions about this, please let me know. The
> > driver is in the open for folks to look at and if anybody wants us to
> > start upstream integration for it, we'll be happy to do so.
> >
> > -Drew
> >
> >
> > On 11/16/14, 8:45 PM, Mike Perez wrote:
> >> The Open Solaris ZFS driver [1] is currently missing a lot of the minimum
> >> features [2] that the Cinder team requires with all drivers. As a
> result, it's
> >> really broken.
> >>
> >> I wanted to gauge who is using it, and if anyone was interested in
> fixing the
> >> driver. If there is not any activity with this driver, I would like to
> propose
> >> it to be deprecated for removal.
> >>
> >> [1] -
> https://github.com/openstack/cinder/blob/master/cinder/volume/drivers/san/solaris.py
> >> [2] -
> http://docs.openstack.org/developer/cinder/devref/drivers.html#minimum-features
> >>
> >
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> -- 
> Duncan Thomas

Drew can you answer Duncan's question? I would like to get a head start on
deprecating the driver, or expect your replacement this release to be
compatible with the existing one.

-- 
Mike Perez