linux-kernel - Re: [Patch v2 2/3] Drivers: hv: add Azure Blob driver

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Message-ID: <20210628173901.mwo4ydfdmf3zd2zt@liuwe-devbox-debian-v2>
Date:   Mon, 28 Jun 2021 17:39:01 +0000
From:   Wei Liu <wei.liu@...nel.org>
To:     "Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" <lkml@...ux.net>
Cc:     longli@...uxonhyperv.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-hyperv@...r.kernel.org, Long Li <longli@...rosoft.com>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@...rosoft.com>,
        Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>,
        Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@...rosoft.com>,
        Wei Liu <wei.liu@...nel.org>, Dexuan Cui <decui@...rosoft.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...aro.org>,
        Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Maximilian Luz <luzmaximilian@...il.com>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org>,
        Ben Widawsky <ben.widawsky@...el.com>,
        Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>,
        Andra Paraschiv <andraprs@...zon.com>,
        Siddharth Gupta <sidgup@...eaurora.org>,
        Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch v2 2/3] Drivers: hv: add Azure Blob driver

On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 07:12:40PM +0200, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote:
> On 26.06.21 08:30, longli@...uxonhyperv.com wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > From: Long Li <longli@...rosoft.com>
> > 
> > Azure Blob storage provides scalable and durable data storage for Azure.
> > (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/blobs/)
> 
> It's a bit hard to quickly find out the exact semantics of that (w/o fully
> reading the library code ...).  :(
> 
> > This driver adds support for accelerated access to Azure Blob storage. As an
> > alternative to REST APIs, it provides a fast data path that uses host native
> > network stack and secure direct data link for storage server access.
> 
> I don't think that yet another misc device with some very specific API
> is a good thing. We should have a more generic userland interface.
> 
> Maybe a file system ?

This can already be done if I'm not mistaken:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/storage-how-to-mount-container-linux
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/network-file-system-protocol-support-how-to

> 
> OTOH, I've been considering adding other kind of blob stores (eg. venti
> and similar things) and inventing an own subsys for that, so we'd have
> some more universal interface. Unfortunately always been busy with other
> things.
> 
> Maybe we should go that route instead of introducing yet another device
> specific uapi.

This work of course does not preclude anyone from going that route.

Wei.

> 
> 
> --mtx
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