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initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">All,</p>
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Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI
Symbol"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.35px; orphans: 2; text-align:
start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space:
normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width:
0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">I am one of the
contributor for<span> </span><a
href="https://github.com/gluster/gluster-block" target="_blank"
rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color:
transparent; color: rgb(51, 122, 183); text-decoration: none;">gluster-block</a>[1]
project, and also I contribute to linux kernel and<span> </span><a
href="https://github.com/open-iscsi" target="_blank"
rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color:
transparent; color: rgb(51, 122, 183); text-decoration: none;">open-iscsi</a>
project.[2]</p>
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style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; position:
relative; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: -apple-system,
BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica
Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple
Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI
Symbol"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.35px; orphans: 2; text-align:
start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space:
normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width:
0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">NBD was around for some
time, but in recent time, linux kernel’s Network Block Device
(NBD) is enhanced and made to work with more devices and also the
option to integrate with netlink is added. So, I tried to provide
a glusterfs client based NBD driver recently. Please refer<span> </span><a
href="https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/633"
target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box;
background-color: transparent; color: rgb(51, 122, 183);
text-decoration: none;">github issue #633</a>[3], and good news
is I have a working code, with most basic things @<span> </span><a
href="https://github.com/gluster/nbd-runner" target="_blank"
rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color:
transparent; color: rgb(51, 122, 183); text-decoration: none;">nbd-runner
project</a>[4].</p>
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style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; position:
relative; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: -apple-system,
BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica
Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple
Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI
Symbol"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.35px; orphans: 2; text-align:
start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space:
normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width:
0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">While this email is
about announcing the project, and asking for more collaboration, I
would also like to discuss more about the placement of the project
itself. Currently nbd-runner project is expected to be shared by
our friends at Ceph project too, to provide NBD driver for Ceph. I
have personally worked with some of them closely while
contributing to open-iSCSI project, and we would like to take this
project to great success.</p>
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style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; position:
relative; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: -apple-system,
BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica
Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple
Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI
Symbol"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.35px; orphans: 2; text-align:
start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space:
normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width:
0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Now few questions:</p>
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style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
16px; padding-left: 2em; position: relative; color: rgb(51, 51,
51); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe
UI", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial,
sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI
Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px;
font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal;
font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing:
0.35px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;
text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2;
word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">
<li class="" data-startline="57" data-endline="57"
style="box-sizing: border-box;">Can I continue to use<span> </span><a
href="http://github.com/gluster/nbd-runner" target="_blank"
rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box;
background-color: transparent; color: rgb(51, 122, 183);
text-decoration: none;">http://github.com/gluster/nbd-runner</a><span> </span>as
home for this project, even if its shared by other filesystem
projects?</li>
</ol>
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style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
16px; padding-left: 2em; position: relative; color: rgb(51, 51,
51); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe
UI", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial,
sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI
Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px;
font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal;
font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing:
0.35px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;
text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2;
word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">
<li class="" data-startline="58" data-endline="59"
style="box-sizing: border-box;">I personally am fine with this.</li>
</ul>
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style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
16px; padding-left: 2em; position: relative; color: rgb(51, 51,
51); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe
UI", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial,
sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI
Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px;
font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal;
font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing:
0.35px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;
text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2;
word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">
<li class="" data-startline="60" data-endline="60"
style="box-sizing: border-box;">Should there be a separate
organization for this repo?</li>
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style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
16px; padding-left: 2em; position: relative; color: rgb(51, 51,
51); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe
UI", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial,
sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI
Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px;
font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal;
font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing:
0.35px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;
text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2;
word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">
<li class="" data-startline="61" data-endline="62"
style="box-sizing: border-box;">While it may make sense in
future, for now, I am not planning to start any new thing?</li>
</ul>
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style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; position:
relative; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: -apple-system,
BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica
Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple
Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI
Symbol"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.35px; orphans: 2; text-align:
start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space:
normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width:
0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">It would be great if we
have some consensus on this soon as nbd-runner is a new
repository. If there are no concerns, I will continue to
contribute to the existing repository.</p>
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style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; position:
relative; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: -apple-system,
BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica
Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple
Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI
Symbol"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.35px; orphans: 2; text-align:
start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space:
normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width:
0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Regards,<br
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Xiubo Li (@lxbsz)</p>
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style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px;
margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px; position:
relative; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: -apple-system,
BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica
Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple
Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI
Symbol"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.35px; orphans: 2; text-align:
start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space:
normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width:
0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">[1] -<span> </span><a
href="https://github.com/gluster/gluster-block" target="_blank"
rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color:
transparent; color: rgb(51, 122, 183); text-decoration: none;">https://github.com/gluster/gluster-block</a><br
style="box-sizing: border-box;">
[2] -<span> </span><a href="https://github.com/open-iscsi"
target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box;
background-color: transparent; color: rgb(51, 122, 183);
text-decoration: none;">https://github.com/open-iscsi</a><br
style="box-sizing: border-box;">
[3] -<span> </span><a
href="https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/633"
target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box;
background-color: transparent; color: rgb(51, 122, 183);
text-decoration: none;">https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/633</a><br
style="box-sizing: border-box;">
[4] -<span> </span><a href="https://github.com/gluster/nbd-runner"
target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box;
background-color: transparent; color: rgb(51, 122, 183);
text-decoration: none;">https://github.com/gluster/nbd-runner</a></p>
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